Sri Lanka, Colombo 11th November 2003. hSenid Software International today launches a new MMS and SMS Portal in cooperation with Mobitel. They are complete one-stop solutions that provide meeting points between the mobile operator or service provider and the costumers.

Mobitel’s MMS Portal, powered by hSenid, is a premium entertainment center where the customers have the possibility to access among others Greeting Cards, MMS Cartoons and MMS Pictures. They can also upload pictures taken with their camera phone to their Personal Album. There are three main applications of the SMS Portal by which can be customers entertained. The user can subscribe to online chat, play online games and also arrange a date with a potential future wife or husband.

The CEO of hSenid, Mr. Dinesh Saparamadu, says in a statement that “hSenid is very happy to work together with Mobitel to provide these premium services to the Sri Lankan market. We feel confident that the SMS and MMS Portals will be very popular among the customers. In our opinion, this symbolizes the innovation and high degree of development in the Sri Lankan Telecom industry today.”

Features of the MMS Portal
One the most valuable and unique features of the MMS Portal is the personal album. The customer can upload his/her own photos and send them by MMS to his/her friends. Other useful utilities are sending greeting cards, downloading trendy polyphonic ringtones, selecting wall papers for the mobile as well as picking out the picture of his/her celebrity. The user can also quickly get information about the weather or get the horoscope for the day according to his/her zodiac sign. Another new and compelling feature is the possibility to receive cartoons on their mobile phones. Cartoons like Dilbert, Dribble or The Peanuts can entertain the users. All these features are the result of hSenid’s focus on out-of-the-box thinking and the employee’s creativity.

Features of the SMS Portal
The new SMS Portal offers both easy and addictive fun in the form of SMS games as well as the possibilities of meeting new people using the chatting and dating functions. The customer can chat with someone who has similar interests, play on-line games with the possibility of winning valuable prices or arrange a date with someone from the dating list. The advantages for customers lie in convenience, ease of use, always access to new and updated entertainment and the possibility of making new friends and partners.

There are five different games; Hangman, Master Mind, Speed, Do You Know and Soccer. They are all SMS based and Mobitel will define the rules. In order to use the chat function, the user needs to log on to the chat service. Sending an SMS to the SMS Portal does this. Once logged on, the user can pick whoever he/she wants to chat with. The most interesting might be the mobile dating service. The user will enter the dating utility and pick up whoever, according to the stated personal preferences, is the most suitable person. After that he/she will send an SMS to start flirting. Easy, isn’t it?

About Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd.
Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd., was launched in 1993 and the third largest TDMA cellular network operator in Sri Lanka, with over 115,000 subscribers. The new GSM platform provides a host of services such as, multimedia messaging, data transmission using GPRS and information on demand services as well as 3 G services such as instant messaging, multimedia chat, rich calls, interactive gaming and all interactive web services. For more information on Mobitel visit the web site www.mobitellanka.com

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