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True or false: 85% of smartphone users will stop drinking water rather than stop using their smartphone apps. True? Yes! And that’s a big opportunity for mobile marketeers!

With smartphone penetration growing to 75%, mobile phone users increasingly need data plans to keep their apps and communication in business. But data plans sometimes run out of data or coverage. How to reach your customers in a time where 'always-on' is standard?

This week CM launched it’s website completely in French. It can be found on www.cmtelecom.fr

Fast delivery of large SMS batches is an art in itself. Speed and delivery rate depend on a couple of factors. Here’s what’s true and false in SMS delivery speed and rates.

No-shows: In healthcare – hospitals, to be more specific - they are a well-known phenomenon in which people tend to forget or do not show up at their appointment in a hospital or care facility. Frustrating for hospital staff and moreover: costly. But the no-show is on its way back because of SMS.

The need for two factor authentication has again risen after a Russian hacker group amassed over a billion Internet passwords. The credentials came from over 420.000 websites of all different sizes, worldwide.

With companies globally demanding more security for their communications, CM, market leader in mobile messaging in Northern Europe, developed a new and safer way of sending push notifications to clients and/or employees: encrypted and masked push notifications.

Mobile Wallets, NFC, iDeal, credit cards: since the smartphone got somewhat globally ubiquitous, we’ve seen multiple mobile payments solutions. But really none of them sincerely is out front.

The Dutch mobile service provider CM Groep (CM, headquartered in Breda, Netherlands) has acquired all activities of its main competitor, SMS service provider KPN Callfactory. With this acquisition, CM has made an important step into further consolidating mobile service providers in the Netherlands.

Sending SMS messages is easy, although there are some details that need attention. There is, for instance, quite some confusion in how to format telephone numbers correctly.

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DJ / Producer Nicky Romero’s latest marketing campaign uses CM Telecom’s Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform and scalable webhosting to win votes. Romero is determined to improve his position on the DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJ list for 2014. The campaign is an idea from Protocol Management and realized together with User Experience (UX) and Product Design agency DARE TO DIFR.

MT Magazine (Management Team) recently made its yearly inventory of the Digital 100 companies in the Netherlands. Next to the usual suspects like Capgemini, KPN and Microsoft, MT recommends CM Group in the Digital 100, which results were published recently.

Px HealthCare, founded by medical scientists developing innovative mobile products, has won the Mobiles for Good Challenge 2014.

Sending and receiving text messages seems pretty simple but is in fact every time a miracle that has many technical intermediate stations.