One of the most crucial issues for sms services providers is clear tariffication system. Customer has a perfect right to know the exact cost of service he gets and if the tax is already included in it. It's no problem to give such information for most of the countries except Russia where the same price given in conventional units by different mobile operators considerably varies being converted to roubles. That's why the tariffication system with prices set in conventional units was accepted and widely spread along with recommendation to get exact cost information from mobile operators. Dollar instability made situation even more complicated and underminded old principles.

Playing the leading role in internet oriented sms services market we decided to follow the tendency and convert Russian tariffication system to roubles.

We guarantee that the gain of our partners will not decrease, we expect even the rise of it. Moreover, we are going to offer you the best terms of profit sharing among all the providers of sms billing.

Of course such global innovations require several technical changes in our system. If you use the standard solutions of our sms services no problems will occure. If you use your own or joint solutions your services could experience some troubles presumably in the operation of XML-file with prices.

Anyway it is strongly recommended that all our partners using such services as remotely deployed sms:key, sms:safe, and sms:transit take the following actions:

1.while using our standard solutions you have to upgrade all the scripts to the current version on smscoin.net;

2.while using your own or joint solutions you have to check the changes in our code in order to amend your own and apply to our support service for inspection.

Transition to a new system is planed to perform on 20.05.2008, so you have enough time to check and upgrade all the scripts. In this period we'll release detailed tariffication with new percents given. Our support service will be glad to answer all your questions and to check operability of your systems after amendments performed.

 Many of you payed attention to problems with access to the site and certain services of SmsCoin this week. They were caused by DdoS attack on our servers launched this weekend.  The causes and aims of the attack are unknown. To the moment the attack all our main services continue their work as usuall, and we apply efforts for requests filtering.

Functionality of several our services independent of such accidents, but there were services this period, which as well as the very site of smscoin.com experienced access troubles. At the moment we have minimized attack effect and occasionally update requests' filters.

Due to the accident we've made changes to the code of sms:key and sms:safe as well as to all  plugins for them. We ask all our partners who use these services to update the scripts.

We inform that transfer of February payouts to Webmoney purses and Cardmoney accounts was completed on March 8. SmsCoin company offers congratulations on the February 23 and the March 8 holidays, and sincerely wishes further prosperity to all our partners.

We do all our best to make your work with our system easier, though the range of our services rather wide. That's why the new services become available in order to provide solutions to the most demanding requests of our clients. One of the demands was the feasibility of sending a content from the internet site to the mobile phone. Now you can solve this specific problem with our new service.

By using this service visitors of your site will be able to send images, music and even movies in appropriate format depending on the type of content to their mobile phones. The installation of the service on your site is as simple as possible. You just have to paste in your site several lines of HTML code.

We are confident that our service would permit our partners to discover additional revenue opportunities and to save money on development of their own software, in case it was planned to implement similar system.

The operation on images has been already implemented, within the next few days audio and video files support will be added. But already now you can use the servise:
- on dating sites;
- on conferences and even games for sending avatars;
- on photo hostings as additional service.

As always we'll be glad to hear any advices and wishes relating to our new service.

Due to technical problems on the operator's side, Life:), Ukraine, is temporarily blocked. Normal workflow will be restored in about a week.

We are pleased to announce an addition of two new tariffs in France. Also the shortcode and sms price in Macedonia have changed.

In the last few weeks our developers have been working on a number of CMS (content management system) modules compatible with our billing platform. The list includes forums (vBulletin, PHPbb), blogs (WordPress, Nucleus, b2evolution), e-shops (Joomla.VirtualMart, osCommerce) and general purpose scripts (DLE, Joomla, e107). The grand total of our modules is 10 as of today, and we believe it will grow steadily. All of them are free, open source and contain detailed setup instructions.

We continue to develop new ready to use solutions, and will be glad to hear from you; feel free to contact our technical support.
 
The modules are available at http://smscoin.com/info/sms-scripts/

January payouts were successfully delivered to your WebMoney purses, as well as CardMoney cards.

A short code in Germany was changed. Please make sure that the numbers on your site are displayed correctly. For customers who use an original SmsCoin interface there are no changes needed.