TEAMtalk will provide SMS services covering all 134 teams in the UK Leagues, from Manchester United to Halifax and Celtic to East Fife. The deal also sees TEAMtalk designing and hosting a web site where the 4.5 million unique users of Freeserve can register to receive football alerts, sent to them via SMS to their mobiles across any network.
Users will have the choice of three different services. For £8.50 a month, the news & scores service includes the delivery of the top daily story for the user’s chosen team in addition to score updates, half time and full time results. News only and scores only services are also available for £5 a month.
Tim Phillips, Director of Access Development at Freeserve commented: Our SMS deal with TEAMtalk is part of a wider sports campaign that will leverage Freeserve’s increasing associations with sport. We asked TEAMtalk to deliver our SMS services because in addition to offering the most in-depth coverage for all UK teams, they could also offer our users a choice of 3 football packages and the ability to deliver over any mobile network.
Chief Executive and Chairman at TEAMtalk, Bill Wilson said: We are very pleased to be providing our SMS services to such an major on-line player as Freeserve. This SMS deal further establishes TEAMtalk’s position as a market leader in content provision over multiple platforms.
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