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Premium SMS
Services are used as a mobile billing method and require a shortcode to send and receive a premium SMS.
Premium SMS services are used as a mobile billing method and require a shortcode to send and receive a premium SMS. Shortcodes are usually 3 digit or 8 digit telephone numbers that are provisioned by the mobile network operators and connected to their billing platforms. Shortcodes are either dedicated, where a business will have a dedicated number, or shared, where a business will share a number with other businesses.
A billing tariff is provisioned to each short code which is the price that a consumer will pay each time they send or receive a premium SMS to or from the shortcode. The two types of billing that relate to our premium SMS services, which include MO (mobile originating) or MT (mobile terminating) billing.
How can you use Premium SMS for your business? Here are some examples below :
Marketing Campaigns | Surveys | Donations | Billable Content | Subscriptions
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Our premium SMS gateway allows seamless integration to happen through our world class API via HTTP. We can deploy our two way messaging platform with your CRM software, website or application.
Our SMS messages are sent using HTTP port (80) or HTTP port (443).
Want to integrate through our API? Get our integration documents here
Our pricing models are designed with affordability in mind. We offer competitive rates and ensure that your Premium SMS needs are catered for.
We charge Premium SMS short code acquisition and short code maintenance and a revenue share model per premium SMS sent for the duration of your business’s use of the code.
We offer Premium SMS services in the following countries
Want to know more about our Premium SMS services? Register an account here or contact our sales team.
Mukuru is a secure and effiecient way of sending money across borders in the most shortest and convenient way to currently the following countries : Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Bangladesh, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia , Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia and Pakistan. Their service was provided via website and mobisite hence could not reach low end market users.
In order to reach the low end market users, a USSD based money remittance solution was provided as an alternative. This solution allows self-service for Mukuru's clientele
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Water Utilities Corporation is the only water supplier in Botswana and had faced numerous challenges due to their manned customer service department. High numbers of office walk-ins and delayed payments by clientele were recorded hence low cash flow for the corporation.
An omni-channel USSD water bill payment system was introduced, allowing clientele to track their water bills and make payments on their mobile handsets.
The Water Utilities Corporation brand is now a house hold name due to their unique USSD solution. Traffic volumes amount to over 1 million each month registering over half a million pula in revenue for each quarter.
Just Gospel is a singing competition aired on Botswana television. The weekly eliminations and overall winner is dependent on the viewers’ opinion hence the need for an effective solution that allowed a wider audience to be reached.
An SMS Voting solution was introduced and this allowed the viewer to send a key word to a designated SMS shortcode so as to vote for their favourite contestant.
The solution became a key marketing tool for the competition as over 150,000 SMS votes were registered during the course.
A multinational beverages company's USSD based competition is one that is aimed at helping it achieve revenue growth in the organisation, whilst building brand equity. The competition is normally run in different countries across Africa including Botswana; whereby customers in Botswana stood a chance to win different prizes by participating in the competition.
A USSD short code was provided for a 3 month competition. Each time a mobile subscriber bought the multinational beverage company's product during the competition, he/she would have to enter a unique code at the back of the cap to a dedicated USSD short code in order to enter the competition and stand a chance to win.
The multinational beverage company's competition registered over 5,000 competition entrants in Botswana.
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