Latest News

• Dr Pieter Streicher, MD of BulkSMS.com, is attending the Global Messaging 2008 conference in Cannes, France (8-9 May 2008). If you wish to schedule an appointment with Dr Streicher at the event, please contact us on info@bulksms.com-- Wednesday, May 7, 2008
• Media Release- Text messaging helps grow photography business-- April 22, 2008
  Cape Sessions, a business run by UK born Liz Metcalfe, sells digital photographs of windsurfers from a website. The business recently expanded its business model by adding a location alert service using text messaging. This service is helping drive sales as clients are kept informed of which beach Metcalfe is taking photographs at on a particular day.Click here for full article.
• Media Release- BulkSMS.co.uk promotes text messaging solutions at Business Startup 2008 Exhibition-- April 15, 2008
  BulkSMS.co.uk is showcasing its text messaging solutions at Business Startup 2008, the UK's premier exhibition aimed at small business owners and managers.Click here for full article.
• Text message alerts improve logistics management-- April 3, 2008
  Text message alerts are improving logistics management within the supply chain. Texting, as a communication channel, allows for the sending of information to one or more people at short notice thereby meeting the key business requirements of timeously communicating delivery schedules to drivers and ensuring that customers are kept informed on their order status.Click here for full article.
• SMS messaging calls faith to action-- March 4, 2008
  A growing number of faith-based organisations are using the BulkSMS Text Messenger service to send text messages. This desktop application is user-friendly, making texting as easy as sending an email. In addition, BulkSMS.co.uk offers faith-based organisations with a part-sponsored tagline discount when they register on the Community.bulksms.co.uk website. This has the advantage of offering faith-based organisations a reduced cost when sending text messages.Click here for full article.
• Changes to pricing structure of SMS credits for UK clients-- February 26, 2008
  To make our service easier to understand, BulkSMS.co.uk is restructuring the number of credits per text message. These changes will take place at 05h00 GMT on March 1^st, 2008. We wish to assure you that you will not suffer any loss whatsoever as a result of the credit pricing restructure, and that the costs of sending text messages are not going up. Click here for full details of the new pricing structure for SMS credits in the UK.
• Mobile industry is going green-- 13 February 2008
  Top wireless industry trends focused on by industry leaders at the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain are faster mobile broadband speeds and the need for companies to commit to the environmental sustainability of the mobile industry. Click here for full article
• Mobile phone etiquette for people on the move-- January 17, 2008
  "We need an etiquette tailored for business people who communicate on the move. The increase in mobile phone usage for work and private calls or messaging is becoming a source of irritation and psychological stress within, and outside, the workplace," says Dr Pieter E. Streicher, managing director at BulkSMS.com. Click here for the full media release.
• Richard Simpson, director at BulkSMS.com, is attending Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (11-14 February 2008). If you wish to set up a meeting at the event, please contact us on info@bulksms.com.- Wednesday, January 16, 2008
• Version 4.3 of the BulkSMS Text Messenger software has been released.- Tuesday, January 15, 2008
  Download here.
• Key features of the new release of the BulkSMS Text Messenger (Version 4.1)- Thursday, 20 December 2007
  Automatic integration of Microsoft Outlook contacts, find and manage feature, multi-group view, drag/ drop from Contacts to Groups, and Groups to Contacts, ability to split large groups into smaller groups, group management screen, sender ID's, long messages of over 160 characters (concatenation), export message. Click here to download new updated software.
• Google invited BulkSMS.com to present a case study at the "Get to know Google" event.- Thursday, November 20, 2007
• Possible fraud risk- Tuesday, January 23, 2007
  We've become aware of a possible fraud risk to our clients that operate web-based SMS businesses. The risk is from unscrupulous Italian consumers exploiting free SMS facilities. Click here to read more.
• Global Messaging 2007- 11th June 2007
  SMS messaging revenues have continued to grow year-on-year and are providing mobile network operators with their most significant messaging revenue earnings. The result is that analysts have had to admit that their predictions on the demise of SMS have been premature. Click here for the full media release
• 3GSM in Barcelona - Jan 30th, 2007
  Bulksms.com will be attending the forthcoming 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Spain from the 12th to 15th February 2007. Interested parties who wish to set up a meeting with a Bulksms.com representative at the conference should Contact us. See the 3GSM Conference website for more information.
• Happy New Year! Tuesday, Jan 2, 2007
  BulkSMS wishes all visitors of our site a wonderful New Year! Your BulkSMS Team
• Bulksms at CeBIT - March 7th, 2006
  Visit us from from 9-15 March at stand F56/2 in Hall 4. To book a meeting with one of our staff at CeBIT email us with your details and indicate your preferred date & time of meeting.
• New website design - August 15th, 2005
  Thanks to Lori at Zenfulcreations and our own team the website looks nicer, there is more information available and it is structured better. Comments are welcome.
• Account security - June 27th, 2005
  We have amended our terms & conditions to improve account security. The "company name" is not editable anymore, and requires a written submission to be changed. Please take note of our amended terms & conditions. Users are advised to ensure that their company details and all contact details on their BulkSMS account/s are correct. The "company" is the legal entity that contracts with BulkSMS.
• Sponsor credit usage - May 17th, 2005
  It is now possible to sponsor credit usage on other Bulksms accounts from your Bulksms account. An example of where this is useful is if you have a business in which you have several people who have Bulksms accounts, but you want to manage the purchasing and usage of credits from one central Bulksms account. This feature is called the Sponsor-Consumer feature as the central account sponsors the consumption of credits on sub-accounts. Read more...
• Better delivery on the Economy Routing Group - Mar 11th, 2005
  Delivery to the UK on the Economy Routing Group has improved. We however still strongly advise that clients test to all networks before sending using the Economy Routing Group.
• Incoming UK numbers - Feb 28th, 2005
  Bulksms can supply a dedicated standard length non-premium UK number for receiving MO SMS messages for a setup fee of £100 and a monthly fee of £50 thereafter. This is a high quality incoming number capable of receiving up to 10 messages per second. For more info, please email info@bulksms.com.
• 'STOP' reply feature added - Feb 20th, 2005
  It is now possible for a recipient of an SMS message to reply with 'STOP' and the recipient's number will automatically be removed from the Bulksms phonebook of the client who sent to the recipient if the number is stored on the client's phonebook. The client will also be emailed to confirm that a 'STOP' request has been received. The recipient number will also be added to a 'blocked' list so that should the client inadvertently send an SMS message to that number again, the SMS message will be blocked. Numbers will only be unblocked if proof is provided that the BulkSMS client may legally SMS the particular number. This feature is in line with legal requirements in many countries. Note that this feature is only available to the recipient if the client set the SMS messages to 'repliable' when sending.
• SSL Encryption added to website - Feb 5th, 2005
  This encrypts all traffic between your web browser and our site, making it very much more difficult for your password to be intercepted by a third party, or your identity to be stolen. You will see that the URL changes from http://... to https://... and that a padlock appears at the bottom of your browser window on the login page and once logged into your Bulksms account.
• Scheduled Messages - Nov 25th, 2004
  Have you ever needed to send an SMS to an individual or group from your Bulksms account at a particular time, but knew that you would not have access to a PC or the Internet at that time? Your only option was to send the SMS out earlier or later than you had wanted to. No longer! With scheduled messaging you can set messages to go out from minutes into the future to days, to weeks and even years into the future. Goto 'Update Your Profile' to enable this feature.
• Low Credit Notification - Aug 6th, 2004
  Avoid running out of credits! Set your Low Credit Level on your user profile and receive email alerts when your credits drop below this level. This feature is particularly useful for clients who use the http, ftp, and email to SMS interfaces. For more information, log into your account and click on 'Update Your Profile'.
• SMS Merge - Jul 20th, 2004
  Personalize your message when sending SMS's to groups. While composing an SMS message to send to a group, all you have to do is click a button for First Name and/or Surname and when you send your message the Bulksms system will automatically place the required information from your Online Phonebook into the message. It is that easy, and it will give your messages more credibility. Try it out on the 'Send Messages to a Group' page.
 

Archived News

Here are older feature additions:

• Mobile2group Number Change - +447797803200 - Jun 10th, 2004
• BulkSMS via your mobile phone - Mar 5th, 2004
• Manage Invoices - Feb 10th, 2004
• Receive replies to your outgoing SMS messages - Jan 26th, 2004
• Failed Number Purge - Dec 3rd, 2003
• Saturday Support hours extended - Jun 10th, 2003