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In accordance with the rules, regulations and best practices of the mobile messaging industry, inbound numbers (for receiving SMS) and the keywords which they use must now be supplemented with a description of the service which they are being used to provide.

Furthermore, in the case of dedicated numbers, keywords can only be used to provide sub-deriviative services which the dedicated number is registered to provide and, in the case of dedicated keywords, secondary keywords can only be used to provide sub-deriviative services which the dedicated keyword is registered to provide.

Unfortunately, however, this means that we can no longer provide shared access to the 'TM4B' keyword which we have (until now) been giving free access to on various numbers.

Although we are required to immediately discontinue our support for existing message receivers that use the TM4B keyword, we are taking two steps to help our customers adjust their services accordingly:

1. We are delaying the discontinuation of existing TM4B-based message receivers until the last day of August 2006 - this is to protect our customers' services/applications from being 'cut' without alternative measure being adopted.

2. We are offering customers with discounted rates on dedicated keywords on receiving numbers - this is because TM4B-based message receivers were previously offered free-of-charge.

Details relating to the reduced prices can be found in this post and customers with dedicated numbers/keywords allocated to their account will be contacted seperately for descriptions of the services which they are using them to provide.