{"id":14983,"date":"2010-09-07T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-07T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:14:00","slug":"free-sms-service-in-sa-gaining-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/14983-free-sms-service-in-sa-gaining-momentum.html","title":{"rendered":"Free SMS service in SA gaining momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/13319-Free-online-SMS-service-launched.html\">FSMS.co.za was launched recently<\/a>, allowing users to send and receive text messages at no cost from their PC&rsquo;s and cellphones.&nbsp; The service is available to PC users through a standard web interface and to cellphone users through a WAP site.<\/p>\n<p>The venture is led by 21-year-old chemical engineering honours student Daniel Schwartzkopff and his partner, software engineer and architect, J&ouml;rg Wunderlich; and funded by Johnny Graaff, director of the Montrose Foundation in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>According to J&ouml;rg Wunderlich FSMS signs up 150 new subscribers per day, and to date the company has notched up a user base of 4,240.<\/p>\n<p>Wunderlich added that they send out around 3,000 SMSes per day and receive around 250 replies.&nbsp; To date the company has sent out a total of 24,000 messages.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/265273-Free-South-African-SMS-service-growing-quickly\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Free SMS service in SA gaining momentum\">Free SMS service in SA gaining momentum<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 4,000 new subscribers to the recently launched FSMS are using the service to send and receive free SMSes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}