Missing People Charity benefit's from Text Appeal

KAPOW!'s Text Appeal Service helps Charities raise money and awareness for their cause using Premium SMS at minimal cost (in most cases free of charge). KAPOW! has worked with Missing people for some years and assists by donating services where possible.

Missing's recent 'Keep The Search Alive' campaign, powered by Kapow!, has recruited over 500 new donators to date.

See the full story at 160characters.org:
http://www.160characters.org/news.php?action=view&nid=2859

For information on the Charity and the Keep the Search Alive Campaign please visit:
http://www.missingpeople.org.uk/keepthesearchalive/

UK VAT Rate to decrease

On December 1st the UK VAT rate will drop from 17.5% to 15%. We will be passing on the savings to all applicable clients.

FreeTXT Shortcodes now available

FreeTXT Shortcodes are now available. This new type of Shortcode allows the end user to send a text to a Shortcode free of charge, normally standard network rates would apply.

Messages to the Shortcode are instead billed to the Provider of the Service.

Kapow! is a long standing supporter of the Charity Missing People, who are the first organisation to utilise the service through Kapow! Missing People have taken up FreeTXT Shortcode 80234 to enable Runaways in a vulnerable situation to contact them free of charge. Details can be found at: http://www.missingpeople.org.uk/runaways/.

'Long SMS' updated to support Concatenated SMS

Concatenated SMS, the handset feature which enables you to send more than 160 characters and have multiple SMS linked as one, is now supported by Kapow! Concatenated SMS is a feature of most modern handsets and allows multiple SMS to be read as one long message, avoiding the need to header message parts e.g 1/2 etc. Each message part will be billed as one credit and you will be able to identify concatenated messages in your message sending logs by the delivery status, the status will be followed by how many parts the message contained e.g. D3.

This new development is an update to the existing 'Long SMS' feature and can be enabled through the 'options' tab of your account. By default the maximum number of parts is set to 3, but you can alter this to suit your requirements (up to 9 message parts/1,377 characters).

International Virtual Incoming SMS

We are now able to provide MSISDN's for nearly every Country Worlwide.

This allows you to utilise a 'local' number to receive Incoming SMS messages via email or http. Benefits include local text rates when sending SMS to the number from a local mobile phone, and increased familiarity for users.

Please ask your Account Manager for specifics.