Dear 02S32 SMS Project Group, Please refer to your email dated 20 May 2002 below. With regard to your queries, we would like to clarify that IDA cannot release information on aggregated or individual SMS usage on behalf of the individual mobile operators. You may wish to write directly to the local mobile operators (MobileOne, SingTel Mobile, StarHub Mobile & Virgin Mobile) for more information on their subscribers' SMS usage. We are unable to elaborate on exactly when intra-network SMS was first launched in Singapore. However, inter-operator SMS was first effected between M1 and SingTel Mobile in February 2000, making Singapore one of the first countries in the world to implement inter-operator SMS. For your further reference, we would like to point out that IDA has recently initiated an SMS Industry Working Group to discuss issues of SMS interoperability. The Terms of Reference, minutes of meetings and an article on SMS are available at http://www.ida.gov.sg, under the subsection "Policy and Regulation" -> "Industry Working Groups". We hope this is useful to you. Good luck with your project! Best Regards, CHAN Khar Liang Assistant Manager, Economic Regulation chan_khar_liang@ida.gov.sg DID: (65) 6211 1079 Fax: (65) 6211 2116 Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore 8 Temasek Boulevard #14-00 Suntec Tower Three Singapore 038988 Main Tel: (65) 6211 0888 Main Fax: (65) 6211 2222 Visit IDA's website at www.ida.gov.sg For enquiries, email to info@ida.gov.sg NOTICE: This communication is meant only for the addressee(s) named above and may contain information which is confidential and/or legally privileged. If you are not the named addressee(s), or the agent responsible for receiving and delivering this communication to the named addressee(s), this communication has been sent to you in error. If so, kindly contact us immediately for retrieval purposes. Unauthorised dissemination, distribution, copying or reliance on this communication is prohibited and may attract criminal penalties. Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hwa Chong" To: Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 11:35 PM Subject: Help in project work > Dear Singtel, > We are a group of year one students from Hwachong Junior College, > class > 02s32. We are currently doing our Ministry Of Education Pre-University > Project Work on the role and impact of SMS in Singapore. We would > greatly > appreciate it if you could help us in the following areas: > 1) When SMS started and how it has developed > 2) Amount of SMS used per year for the last 10 years (1992 - 2001) > 3) The average individual use per month > Upon completion of our project, we will be drawing up a report on > the > people's views on the service and how they would like the service to be > improved upon. This report will be presented to you at the end of our > project and we hope it will be of some help to you in one way or > another. > We sincerely hope that you will reply us as soon as possible and we > thank > you very much for helping to make our project a success. > > Sincerely, > Clarinda Lim > Quek Zhanfan > Wu Junli > Ranieri Koh > Irene Teo