Short Code expiry

The following short codes will expire on the 31st August 2008. Please ensure that your advertising and marketing material is adjusted before this date.
Spain               7606                
Finland              179600             
Norway             2140                

Bango Directory live bidding starts

Live bidding for keywords in the auction for the Bango Directory begins later today.
 
Live bidding for each of the top 4 positions begins at these times: 
Position 1 – 30/06/08 3pm GMT
Position 2 – 01/07/08 3pm GMT
Position 3 – 02/07/08 3pm GMT
Position 4 – 03/07/08 3pm GMT
Log in to your Management Tools and start bidding in [...]

Transcoding on Vodacom South Africa

You may have noticed a number of conversations on the topic of Transcoding for Vodacom, one of South Africa’s main Operators.
 
Bango have been watching this conversation closely and would like to confirm with our Content Providers that Vodacom are using the OpenWeb transcoder that easily and successfully recognises mobile specific content and does not [...]

Vodafone UK maintenance notice

Vodafone UK have notified us that they will be carrying out some planned maintenance on the billing platform between 6am – 7.30am on the 27th June 2008
Users may be presented with PSMS as a payment method during this period

REMINDER – Network ids change from 1st July

Please refer to this blog entry for more information  http://bangoserviceblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/streamlining-the-network-ids-updated/

Directory Auction Opens Today

The auction for the Bango Directory opens today.
Log in to your Management Tools and have a look at the Search & Discovery section for more information and how to bid.

Proximus Belgium – Maintenance

Proximus Belgium will be performing a maintenance on their platform during the times specified below. Clients may experience short MO and MT outages during the maintenance timeframe.
Type: Maintenance
Date: 22-June-2008
Time: 00:01 AM – 10:00 AM CEST
Impacted Service: PSMS Belgium
Description: Clients may experience short MO and MT outages.

Orange Spain – Issue

Orange Spain is experiencing problems on their platform, which might cause MT delays. The operator is working to solve the problem as swiftly as possible.
Type: Service Degradation
Date: 19-June-2008
Time: 12:30 CEST
Impacted Service: PSMS Spain
Description: Clients may experience MT delays.

On-handset User help

We have launched the new Help section for Users on their handsets. This will hopefully reduce confusion and give Users more confidence when purchasing content on their mobile phones.
The new Help section includes:

“Related topics” feature
Improved feedback and report a problem to a Content Provider
Help available during the payment flow
Country-specific help
Network-specific help

We would love to hear [...]

T-Mobile Germany – Maintenance

Start Date: 2008-06-25
Start Time: 05:00 AM CET (03:00 AM GMT)
End Date: 2008-06-25
End Time: 06:00 AM CET (04:00 AM GMT)
Connection: T-Mobile SMSC
Affected functionality: SMS
Info: There will be a planned maintenance activity in the Operator environment on the 25th June 2008 between 05:00 and 06:00 CET. SMS traffic towards end-consumers belonging to the Operator will be disabled [...]