Expanding Short Message Services

Orkut, a well known and popular online social network site. Despite of the fact that Orkut is targeted at an international and multi-language audience, it is well-known that the majority of users, over 70% is from Brazil. While orkut users love having an online social network, Orkut understands that a good deal of users social life happens offline. Orkut wanted to enrich the offline social life of its members, so thought about bringing orkut to the device you carry around in your pocket, your mobile phone. This was when orkuts SMS service was born.

With Orkuts new SMS feature, you can scrap your friends, look up their contact information and receive scrap notifications. Now you can send scraps from the bus, bar or bathroom, and your friends can get notified of those scraps when on bicycle, beach or bed. This week, orkut premium SMS will become available to orkut members in Brazil who use Claro as their mobile service provider.

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BRAZIL PSMS COULD ACCOUNT FOR 10-12% OF BRAZIL''S MOBILE REVENUE BY 2005.

Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil) listen (help·info), is a country in South America.[2] It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, the fifth most populous country,

The volume of short message service (SMS) traffic in Brazil surged 20% to 8.4bn messages in 2006 compared to 7.0bn in 2005, newspaper Gazeta Mercantil reported, citing estimates from mobile messaging solution supplier Okto.

Around 90% of this volume is person-to-person, while the application-to-person market, which integrators such as Okto can bill for, accounts for the remainders.

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