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ForgetMeNot Africa nominated for AfricaCom Awards 2011 · 10 Oct 2011
ForgetMeNot Africa has been nominated in the Best New 
Service category at this year’s prestigious AfricaCom Awards.
Facebook, email and online chat access using SMS
Africa’s premier telecoms award gala has shortlisted ForgetMeNot Africa for the deployment of its Message Optimiser technology with Econet Wireless Zimbabwe’s eTXT service, which provides Facebook, email and online chat access using SMS to all of Econet’s 5 million subscribers.
47.5 million people access to Facebook via SMS
The Message Optimiser technology has been implemented by six operators in five countries across east, west, southern and central Africa, giving 47.5 million people access to Facebook via SMS in February 2011, in addition to email and online chat.
Transforms the most basic SMS-enabled device
Message Optimiser bypasses the need for fixed telephone line Internet access, PCs, expensive subscriptions, smartphones, Java downloads and data connections to provide email, online chat, instant messaging and social networking to even the most rural communities in Africa. It transforms even the most basic SMS-enabled device into a virtual smartphone.
