September 24, 2009 -- Fortumo.com the leading Mobile Payment Platform for SME-s in Eastern Europe and Asia announced today its expansion to Western Europe. Starting from today Fortumo is providing service in 26 countries including 9 major Western European countries.
"We have focused so far more on emerging markets in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia since we wanted to first cover the regions where it used to be more difficult to do SMS-payment or other SMS-services," says the CEO of Fortumo Martin Koppel. "In addition to providing new and more destinations to our existing customers, we see that our flexible approach to mobile payment will help web businesses to grow in Western Europe as well," adds Koppel.Besides mobile payment, with Fortumo everyone can create SMS-services without any technical background or cost in 5 minutes. Basic services are targeting at users without any technical skills, while advanced services enable experienced service providers to benefit from the multi-country functionality, flexible user interface and competitive revenue sharing.
"Typical Fortumo users are online game portals, social media application developers and different internet entrepreneurs, while radio stations, local newspapers and ad agencies also benefit from the media convergence." says the CEO of Fortumo Martin Koppel. "At the moment people have created nearly 70 000 revenue generating SMS-services," adds Koppel.
Fortumo is providing its services in 26 countries from Nordics, Europe to Southeast Asia, and is available at Fortumo.com without any startup or monthly fees.
About Fortumo: Fortumo is the open mobile platform provider, allowing companies, developers, web enterprises and media alike an opportunity to launch their own revenue-generating mobile services without any costs. Fortumo makes creating mobile services as easy as creating a blog, by eliminating all technical difficulties and making a market of 990 million mobile subscribers in 26 countries available for anyone. Fortumo Ltd is a division of Mobi Solutions Ltd, Baltics' leading mobile value-adding service developer and provider. www.fortumo.com
Media contact:
Martin Koppel
martin.koppel@fortumo.com
+37256666273
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