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SMS 2b 'Nu Mdia' on Horizon
来源: 时间: 2021-10-23
Nearly every mobile
phone user has received a short message via SMS, varying from notices, greetings
to advertisements and pictures. The fast speed and rich content of SMS (Short
Message Services) cannot be compared to any other media. According to statistics
from Beijing Morning Post, this year SMS on China Mobile will reach 50 billion,
three times more than last year. As a result, the sales volume will reach
6 billion yuan. Short messages are, it seems, emerging as a new media form.
Low Costs Stimulate Business
It has been suggested that by the end of 2002, China had more than 200 million mobile phone customers who keep expanding at the rate of 4 million per month. China Mobile claimed that all together its mobile phone customers sent 80 billion short messages in 2002, 15.9 billion more than in 2001. Some experts pointed out why SMS is seen by websites as “pillar” in its profit making. Among many short message content providers, websites serve as a base or center. In general practice, for each short message, after excluding 0.05 yuan (transportation) fee, remaining profit is divided in two: 15 percent for the operator and 85 percent for the websites. Compared with other profit models of “high invest and low profit”, profit from SMS is amazingly high. Customer-friendly Service SMS on mobile phones combine the advantages of connection, speed, efficiency, cheapness, while being easy to save and easy to play. Being a sort of wireless communication facility, mobile phones are getting smaller and smaller in size while more and more powerful in function with new technological developments. SMS can store messages and attempt to deliver when available. So the customers can send messages as they like without caring whether the recipients are in service or not. Although charges for the sound service are declining, the fees for mobile phones are not cheap for most customers. So the price of each short message appeals to customers at a cost of 10 fen in China no matter how big the distance. What’s more, the recipient is free from charge. Compared with the sound service, which costs 0.40 yuan per minute, short messages are economical. Statistics show, half of the customers spend more than 5 yuan on short messages per month. The contents of short messages are rich and colorful. From hottest news, to fancy ads, jokes and street gossip, everything can be included on a short message. Moreover, customers can order information for their own needs, which enables different customers to also find their own social circles. The short message that originated from wireless networks has some characteristics of Internet Media. Among these, the most outstanding is interaction. Customers can participate in many activities depending on their own interests. The activities range from polls, games to lotteries and riddles. For example, at the end of 2001, on Channel V, a popular music TV program, “List of Top Chinese Pop Music” conducted SMS voting through Monternet.com. In addition, SMS offers traffic service and stock news. Easiest Way to Reach the World Back to the Sept. 11 incident, many people came to know the news first via SMS from news websites. No doubt, short messages have incomparable advantages in terms of spreading news. News is generally concise and develops quickly, so the media need to broadcast it quickly and widely, which is to the advantages of mobile phones. It is this function of mobile phones, which enables many people to transfer the news to many others, that serves a chain of “N communication.” So, some media experts have estimated that SMS will turn out to be the fifth media after Internet Media. |
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