Local Little Smart service won't go inter-provincial
27/11/2003 15:13
Little Smart users in Shanghai won't be able to send or receive short
messages to or from users of the same citywide mobile phoning service out of the
city, as the local telecommunications operator has no plan yet to open the
inter-provincial short messaging service (SMS), today's Shanghai Morning Post
said citing spokesman with Shanghai Telecom Co Ltd.
The declaration came in
response to the recent report that Little Smart users in Shandong, Shanxi, Jilin
and Heilongjiang provinces will soon have their SMS go inter-provincial.
And
the service will probably be applied to all the northern China provinces, as
China Netcom Corp, Little Smart operator of the four provinces, are reportedly
completing the inter-provincial testing among its branches in the other six
northern provinces.
Shanghai launched the Little Smart service last August
only in the suburban districts and counties of Songjiang, Fengxian, Nanhui,
Qingpu, Jiading, Jinshan and Chongming and Baoshan.
Users there are able to
send and receive short messages between these areas but not with out-of-town
dialers.
Each message is charged at 0.08 yuan (1 US cent), half the rate for
those offered via the mobile phones.
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
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