Press Release: R10 MILLION advertising giveaway on premier new mobile portal and business directory

The founder of Bruinou.com, Charles Ash, has recently launched a new product into the market and he needs your help in spreading the word and increasing usage of the service. Please could you forward any Mobilepages.co.za promotional emails you get to any interested parties, as well as add a bookmark to Mobilepages.co.za in your WAP enabled cellphone. Mobilepages.co.za is set to become the premier mobile portal for the upwardly mobile!

Durban based technology company African Communication Technologies (Pty) Ltd (ACT) and their mobile applications development partner Psinetic cc., have positioned themselves to provide value adding services to the rapidly growing mobile internet market in South Africa.

ACT, recently launched their flagship mobile portal Mobilepages.co.za, (www.mobilepages.co.za), a revolutionary service designed to make access to everyday, lifestyle oriented information an absolute breeze. The modest Mobilepages.co.za service includes access to a premium business directory plus links to premier mobile sites which cover everything from Lotto numbers to holiday accommodation to finding a car. Charles Ash, African Communication Technologies’ project manager said “With so much being said about the digital-divide, electronic business directories that do not have a plan for covering the mobile Internet have missed the plot completely. Companies continue to charge exorbitant amounts for advertising in uninspired, unoriginal, mediocre business directories, when the Mobilepages.co.za business directory is the only electronic business directory built from the ground-up to be equally accessible and functional on most devices, PCs and Internet enabled cellphones. Research shows that most people, the world over, will access the Internet from their cellphones. With the high cost of broadband and PC Internet access in South Africa, accessing the Internet from your cellphone is the logical alternative. Unfortunately, and as a result of sheer profiteering on the part of mobile content providers, mobile content has been restricted to ringtones and operator logos. The lack of compelling, interesting, engaging content has resulted in people not seeing or realizing the potential value of the medium. Mobilepages.co.za plans to change all that by growing our service offering to include news, weather, sport scores, dating services and the like to ensure repeat use of the service.”

Cellular networks have made great strides in reducing GPRS and 3G costs and the stage has thus been set for phenomenal uptake of mobile services by the general public. Even the major SA banks are making their services available for the mobile Internet platform by admitting the limitations and cost of SMS based services which they initially backed. “It’s interesting to note that even in countries that have a high-level of broadband penetration, the mobile Internet is still enormously popular in countries like Japan and Singapore. People were not designed to be chained to desks, the mobile Internet means that people have access to the information they need, whenever they need it”, says Charles Ash.

To celebrate the launch of the Mobilepages.co.za service, African Communication Technologies (Pty) Ltd is giving away up to R10 MILLION worth of advertising space in the groundbreaking Mobilepages.co.za business directory. List your business now absolutely free by going to www.mobilepages.co.za from your PC and make sure to add mobilepages.co.za as a bookmark on your internet enabled cellphone. You’ll be very glad you did.