Free SMS Through Your E-mail

Out of load? Hey, share-a-load or pasaload may not be the only solution for you to SMS someone when your prepaid load is at zero balance. Now just an e-mail away, and there's no need to download and install any application with Mail2Mobile, the newest free SMS messaging service. This service is made possible by MegaMobile, the wireless services subsidiary of publicly-listed IPVG Corp.

Cool enough, I was able to send 4 free SMS for the day. There should be a daily limit on this… I will try to send some SMS again tomorrow. hehe. Here’s how: to send an SMS, just type-in @m2m.ph (ie., 09204658532@m2m.ph) in the email recipient box ("To:"), write the message and send; just like any regular email. You may need to wait for the confirmation message in your e-mail and click on a confirmation link to complete the process. The message is then forwarded as an SMS to the recipient's mobile phone. Recipients can respond by simply replying as they would to any SMS. Their messages are then forwarded to the originating email address. Initially available to Smart and Globe Networks, I think messaging to Sun Cellular subscribers will soon be made available.

With M2M, mobile subscribers can also now send SMS messages to any email address. Mobile users simply text in M2M (ie., M2M whoever@yahoo.com Hi. Wazzup?) and send to 2948 for Smart, Globe, and Sun networks. M2M messaging from emails is free while messages from mobile phones are charged P2.50 per SMS.

I can’t wait to try this out in the office, while on ACW. hehe.

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BPO's Moving Forward in 2009

Despite the global economic slowdown, I still believe that business process outsourcing (BPO) companies in the Philippines will come out strong for the incoming year 2009. Recently, NCO announced with the ongoing construction of a 4,000-seat call center facility in Taytay, Rizal, becoming the biggest call center facility in Rizal. StarTek, a US-based business process outsourcing (BPO) company, will be hiring an estimated 1,000 employees for its newly-opened Makati City facility.

In a survey done, approximately 98 percent of BPO companies said that revenues and workers will keep growing for 2009, the Business Process Outsourcing Association of the Philippines and Outsource2Philippines said. For me it’s quite simple: companies in the U.S. will further utilize outsourcing to minimize costs, and is evidently working well for them, bringing good businesses to BPO’s.

Attracting highly-skilled workers—and not the effects of the global credit crunch—remain the number one concern of Philippine BPO’s. Now that’s the real problem and the government should extend more free call center trainings, to help and encourage qualified workforce. As a contribution, I also provide free tips to call center applicants on how to pass interviews and exams.

Let's all move forward to a more prosperous 2009 for the BPO's!

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