New SMS service in Malaysia
Living in Malaysia and driving a car can be quite a hassle sometimes. Not only driving, also parking since the lack of suitable parking is quite obvious. In reaction to this, Malaysians park anywhere they can - and this often means double or even triple parking. And there is nothing more annoying than to sit inside the car and to wait for the other driver to come - and to honk and to honk and to, well, just boil!
Well, challenges for one create opportunities for others. The Star (Malaysia) reported yesterday, that there is a new company called Worldwide SMS Network Link Sdn Bhd that allows one driver to SMS with another driver anonymously with each other using a unique messaging service known as Driver-to-Driver SMS.
The company's Managing Director says that one is sending an SMS to their service number 39888 would allow the sender to hide his or her identity - which is good considering that spamming mobile phones or crank calls is just one or two of the possible nuisances that could cause harm to someone.
There is no interconnection between different providers of this service - if there are more than one, which means, that one needs to sign up with Worldwide SMS Network Link to be able to communicate with each other. Let's hope that they will open the lines for each other, otherwise, the service might not be that good.
And please, don's SMS while driving - there are plenty of accidents because drivers were inconsiderate enough to text while driving, as textually points out, quoting an article from The Age (http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/004776.htm) .
In this story is stated that Research by Telstra in June showed that more than half of Australian motorists under the age of 30 may be reading text messages while at the wheel.
The research also showed that 58 per cent of motorists surveyed aged 17 to 29 admitted to looking down at their mobile phones to read text messages. Superintendent Peter Keogh is quoted as saying that "That (texting) is blatantly stupid, dangerous and people only have to think of the unfortunate people who have been killed or seriously injured in crashes to really understand and recognise the dangers and change their behaviour."
Well, challenges for one create opportunities for others. The Star (Malaysia) reported yesterday, that there is a new company called Worldwide SMS Network Link Sdn Bhd that allows one driver to SMS with another driver anonymously with each other using a unique messaging service known as Driver-to-Driver SMS.
The company's Managing Director says that one is sending an SMS to their service number 39888 would allow the sender to hide his or her identity - which is good considering that spamming mobile phones or crank calls is just one or two of the possible nuisances that could cause harm to someone.
There is no interconnection between different providers of this service - if there are more than one, which means, that one needs to sign up with Worldwide SMS Network Link to be able to communicate with each other. Let's hope that they will open the lines for each other, otherwise, the service might not be that good.
And please, don's SMS while driving - there are plenty of accidents because drivers were inconsiderate enough to text while driving, as textually points out, quoting an article from The Age (http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/004776.htm) .
In this story is stated that Research by Telstra in June showed that more than half of Australian motorists under the age of 30 may be reading text messages while at the wheel.
The research also showed that 58 per cent of motorists surveyed aged 17 to 29 admitted to looking down at their mobile phones to read text messages. Superintendent Peter Keogh is quoted as saying that "That (texting) is blatantly stupid, dangerous and people only have to think of the unfortunate people who have been killed or seriously injured in crashes to really understand and recognise the dangers and change their behaviour."
posted by Andreas @ 6:39 pm
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