who has info on sending ads to cell phones?
 

Does anyone have any information on how to send ads to cell phones? Please spam me!

Thanks


Mr. Romance

It's called spam.

:321GFY

From time to time I get calls from random companys on my cell looking for new customers.

I love the part where I tell them they can fuck off and I will never use thier company or product.


Cell phone cold calls or spam is a great way to make sure a lot of people wont be interested in your product, IMO.

:thumbsup

I think he's talking about the SMS ads you get in certain areas for products. I've seen them in a few countries for all sorts of things, cars, music, restaurants, etc. For example of you are in a shopping mall you might get an SMS for a shop in the mall having a super sale.


No idea how they do it. Probably a relationship between an ad company and the major carriers.

The correct term you are refering to is called bluespamming or bluecasting.

Here is a sample of an ad sent out a couple weeks ago to passers by.

Phones : 771 discovered.
Success : 134 messages were delivered.
Fail : 51 handsets refused the connection.

Hardware wise: ProxBox A, purchased from Merlin Wireless in Plymouth, UK. It's a SENA Parani MPS1000 BlueTooth Access Point with Merlin's software running under Linux. You can log in remotely to admin through a control panel or dive right in and talk to it with SSH.

Be very careful when you send out unsolicited messages as you may be the next test case in the courts. I would recommend an opt-in program to cover your ass.

They use this kind of thing a lot more in South Africa funny enough - all the malls have bluetooth advertising when you walk around them.

http://www.bluemagnet.com/bluecasting.html
http://www.bluemediaserver.com