Push Email Vs SMS

By : aung_qu

Last few years  Short Message Service  (SMS) more commonly known as text messaging, is getting more use than email. But  now , along with growing mobile phone  technology ,  people began to use the push email as an effective and efficient text messaging. Push email is a technology that allows an e-mail behave like an SMS,  when you receive mail your mobile phone will respond with alert tone and the mail will appear from your phone.  That is  you can send and receive message any time like SMS. So, which one better Push email or SMS.

The Cost of Push Email and SMS

To get push email service you must have high-end mobile phone and invest much dollars but you can get SMS with low-end or high-end mobile phone. SMS price calculated based on character. Generally mobile phone can write 160 characters per message,  only some phone can write  until 500 characters per message, with this limitation using  Push email more profitable  because the price calculated based on character that we send, moreover some provider offer flat price.

Flexibility Push Email and SMS

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Using push email give more flexibility, imagine if you are a businessman and must read a important report in Microsoft Excel format  from your client and make a decision quickly  for your business.  So if you have  push email  you just open the message from your phone wherever you are  without you must arrive in your office and open your note book.

You  are really happy when we received an email from a friend that includes photos their children, sharing stories and others, with push email you only just send one message, compare with SMS how many SMS must you send?.

Push Email set to Replace SMS ?

Cliff Raskind, director of wireless enterprise strategies  said :  in North America, more than 31 million will use SMS by the end of 2006, whereas just over 5 million will rely on mobile email. SMS will continue to dominate through 2009, though email will start closing the gap. Nearly 38 million users will be sending text messages by the end of 2009, while close to 16 million will use mobile email. On the revenue side, SMS will still show strong numbers, growing from $2.6 billion in 2006 to $3.7 billion in 2009. Mobile email will see more growth as well, jumping from $1.5 billion to $2.6 billion over the same period. “SMS still is a really important” , Raskind said

So , use the technology according that you need.

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