Nigeria's indigenous telecoms operator, Globacom has launched a mobile newspaper service tagged Glo-Mpaper as part of measures to provide real-time online news items to its over 25 million subscribers.
The telecoms company said the new service would offer leading Nigerian and international news on mobile to all categories of its subscribers.
Glo said it continues to be innovative even as it has championed the introduction of series of novel products and services it pioneered in Nigeria such as mobile Internet, BlackBerry, Per Second Billing, vehicle tracking, 3G, ring back tunes, mobile banking and sms to email.
In a statement signed by the company's Coordinator, Marketing, Mr. Adeniyi Olukoya, Globacom said that subscribers on the network could access news on the mobile portal by subscribing to news alert via SMS.
"We are glad to announce to our esteemed subscribers the birth of Glo-Mpaper, a service that supplies news from local and international newspapers to subscribers over SMS and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).
"The beauty of this service from our stable is that beyond the immediacy of delivering the news items as they break, users can subscribe to at least three different newspapers," the statement added.
According to Globacom, accessing the service is easy and users could change their newspaper category as many times as they wish free-of-charge, just as the service would be opened to any brand or model of handset.
Speaking further in the statement, Olukoya said the telecoms firm stressed that all categories of subscribers on both the prepaid and postpaid platforms could access the service and would not be required to have any GPRS connectivity to enjoy the service.
National Mirror