About AKNMTECH

AKN Messaging Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd. is Asia’s premier mobile content and solutions provider. It has presence in over 8 countries including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Singapore, Bangladesh, Pakistan with rapidly expanding operations in Middle East and CIS regions. Being listed on the Malaysian stock exchange since 2003 AKNMTECH has accumulated extensive experience and expertise for providing customized Value Added Services in different markets.

AKNMTECH has Asia’s largest content library and has exclusive Worldwide rights to all Pakistani music for Mobile platform and is the only content provider having exclusive copyrights to all Bollywood content in Pakistan as well.

AKNMTECH has executed over 300 Mobile Marketing Campaigns and Services with more than 70 mobile networks across Asia.

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GLOBAL SMS NEWS

SMS Wins UNICEF Award

RapidSMS Child Malnutrition Surveillance in Malawi has won UNICEF the first-place award for International Development. The system enables health practitioners in Malawi to share children's nutritional information by SMS, supporting efforts to enhance children's health and vastly reducing the time necessary to detect famines More>>

SMS Or Die!

Digital Marketing company mobileStorm in a research paper starkly claims that SMS is at the point email marketing was 10 years ago and marketers should use SMS or die! More>>

An SMS Can Crash Symbian Phones

A new exploit delivered by SMS crashes the SMS function on a wide range of Symbian OS-based smartphones so the user cannot receive new text messages.
The exploit, dubbed the “SMS Curse of Silence” was made public at "hacker" enthusiast event the Chaos Communication Congress. More>>

Head Office
AKN Messaging Technologies

Level 32, Tower 2, Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50088 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  

Regional Office (Pakistan)
AKN Messaging Technologies
406, Continental Trade Center, Block-8, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan
Tel: +92 21 111 188 188
www.aknmtech.com.pk

For further information
Adeel Malik
Corporate Service Manager
GSM: +92 321 2411836

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Warid Gup-Shup Corner

AKNMTECH Pakistan’s leading Mobile Value Added Services provider innovates another exciting, entertaining and mass appeal chatting service “Gup-Shup Corner” with one of the leading GSM operators in Pakistan Warid Telecom.

Gup Lagao service is a one of its own kind service in Pakistan for the lonely, friendly, talkative, bored, fun loving, intellectual, gregarious, companionable individuals who are looking for new mates and have good time. The unique service provides LIVE real-time voice based chatting options where multiple callers can engage in conversation with like-minded people in multiple public as well as private voice chat rooms.

The concept of live voice chat rooms is first of its kind in Pakistan where callers have the option to participate in multiple public chat rooms as well as engage in private chat conversations. The real time voice engine also enables customers to record their voice profile and surf through multiple profiles and send invitations for chat.

The service since provides an entertaining platform to exchange views and indulge in multiple conversations with individuals nationwide.  Warid Gup Lagao service received an overwhelming response from Warid subscribers and a very high consistent recurrent users rate was observed on the system.

AKNMTECH has always been at the forefront of developing innovative and engaging mobile VAS services and is working with Warid for the last 3 years for launching exciting new VAS services helping Warid increase ARPU and market penetration.

SMS still 'King'

Far from reaching a peak and tailing off, Worldwide Messaging Revenues are set to almost double by 2013 according to a new report from Portio Research focused on mobile messaging that suggests that SMS will continue to be the cash cow of mobile data revenues for some time to come. More than fifteen years have passed since the world witnessed its first SMS and in spite of many predictions to the contrary, traffic volumes and

revenues continue to confound predictions and are expected to keep growing throughout the global economic downturn. Indeed the whole mobile messaging industry worth USD 130 billion in 2008 is predicted to be worth USD 224 billion by 2013, 60 percent of non-voice service revenues. The report, ‘Mobile Messaging Futures 2008 – 2013’ ventures that there is nothing likely to stop continued growth of mobile messaging in the short term, driven by a cocktail of ubiquitous SMS, media rich MMS, enterprise based mobile email and youth conscious mobile IM. US Overtakes EU SMS remains ‘King’ because there is no cheap, easy to use alternative that will work with all phones and across all networks, it is loved the world over. Indeed in the US market, where SMS was a comparative slow starter, use per subscriber per month is now almost double the European average. However in China average users send over 100 messages each month whereas the Filipinos continue to be the leading exponents with 755 messages each month. Compared to Asia Pacific’s 40 percent, Latin America and Africa and Middle East contributed a mere 3.9 percent and 4.3 percent respectively to worldwide mobile messaging revenues in 2007. More>>>

AKN Featured Product

Network Monitoring System

Network Monitoring System (NMS) is a recent innovation by AKNMTECH for monitoring, troubleshooting and starting/stopping server applications and services through email, SMS, web & wap. The newly built solution resides on an enterprise LAN or WAN and monitors status and health of services and network devices/appliances. Incase of any non-responsive status for any of these services, machines or network devices it triggers a series of alerts on SMS & Email.

NMS comes with a comprehensive escalation management module where each enterprise can define multiple escalation levels comprising of multiple combination of alerts including SMS and Email. Enterprises can also define tiers of alerts where time bound alerts are triggered to next hierarchy in case no action is taken until a certain time period by the respondents.

NMS is currently deployed in large enterprises with multiple servers and network devices where manual 24/7 monitoring is exposed to human error and latency. One of the most important features of the NMS is the remote start, stop, reboot, restart command activation through SMS & Email allowing technical staff to remotely start/stop critical services through their mobile phones with just a single SMS!

For more details on the product, please send an email on sales@aknmtech.com.pk