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Fastsms SMS messaging solutions are aimed primarily at business users and their communications needs. However nothing disqualifies personal users from using Fastsms for their texting needs. You can send and receive texts, at low cost, wherever you may be as long as you have an internet connection, so can be very handy when overseas or out of range.

All solutions are free irrespective of usage level. Message credits can be bought in bundles as low as 100 credits which, at the time of writing, costs just £3.50p + VAT. Inbound messages can come through a Virtual Mobile Number which costs just £99 + VAT per annum, or you can direct inbound messages to your mobile phone if you prefer.

Posted on 24/12/2015
In Use Cases

Have you ever wanted to send a message to someone with just the perfect sentiment, but couldn't find the words? Or you couldn't say what you wanted in less than the 160 characters of an SMS message? Believe it or not, there are many places on the web that offer pre-written messages you can simply cut and paste, then send off to unsuspecting family and friends. If you Google just a little, you'll find that these already composed messages are gaining ground as a greeting card substitute too. As someone who always forgets to get the holiday cards in the post, I see the allure of sending holiday greetings via SMS. They're fast, easy, yet potentially just as heartfelt as whatever is written inside a traditional greeting card. So I looked around and found a few I thought worthy of sharing – and perhaps sending. The ones I've chosen come from SMS4smile.com. It...

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Posted on 10/12/2015
In Mobile Marketing

Earlier this year there was big news. WhatsApp users were sending more messages each day than SMS users were sending. According to the Telegraph, WhatsApp was 50% more popular than SMS messaging. And the truth is the number of SMS messages sent each day has declined over the last few years. In the UK it was down almost 25% from 2012 to 2013. But is that the whole picture?

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Posted on 27/10/2015
In Mobile Marketing

In the image you'll see the obvious peaks on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but you won't see the peak after Christmas for Boxing Day because this data is for the US. They have a surge in sales after Christmas, but usually not as big as the UK (You can see a similar chart for UK online only sales in an IBM report I'll discuss in a later section.). And it looks like the UK might be following the trend shown above more anyway, because according to Barclaycard, Black Friday was the biggest...

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Posted on 22/09/2015
In Mobile Marketing

Earlier this month I attended an online webinar session covering topics related to SMS. One of the presenters produced some interesting statistics. I wanted to know more, so I went to the original source and found some great news for everyone using SMS as a key part of their mobile strategy.

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