October 2009: MNC France

MNC is pleased to announce the opening of MNC Mobile News Channel SA France. Our small sister company now offers SMS services adapted to the French market. We wish MNC France all the best.

VAD09
From the 13 with October 15, 09, MNC and its Infogest partner are with the living room of E-Trade VAD2009 in Lille. Existing for 13 years, the VAD has been a reference in the field of the E-Trade.

September 2009 : EVZ (HC Zoug) launches its new Hockeycard

Holders of this card can benefit from exclusive promotions offered by the club (matches, shop) as well as sponsors and retailers. MNC is providing EVZ with a complete portal solution including the management of members, the manufacture of cards, online payment and the management of offers for sponsors and retailers. The solution also includes the possibility of building mobile marketing campaigns by SMS.

August 2009 : FRC places its trust in MNC SMS services

The French-speaking Consumers Association (Fédération Romande des Consommateurs) plans to acquire new members simply by sending an SMS text message.

July 2009 : MNC launches version 5.1 of mBox

This new version is now compatible with the payment solutions of Swisscom for Mobile Internet payment and Postfinance for mobile payment.

June 2009 : Lugano informs its citizens by sms

The city of Lugano has chosen MNC for the promotion of its cultural activities.

June 2009 : A new application for mCouponing

mCouponing now allows events organisers to offer free entrance with an sms coupon ordered by customers beforehand. This makes it possible to increase visits to customer sites and offer gifts.

May 2009 : MNC and its' partner Infogest introduce the mCommerce solution during the 2009 e-Commerce Convention, on the 28th May at the Geneva CICG

MNC and Infogest fully fit in the trend of E-trade with a global trade offer via mobile. The service provided by MNC-Infogest covers all the stages of the purchase by mobile: order by sms with the delivery at home, while invoicing is performed via debit/credit card or via direct invoice.

May 2009 : MNC and its Partner xsmart introduce mCouponing at Orbit

mCouponing allows brands and their resellers to broadcast coupons that deliver exclusive offers to targeted customers thank. The customers can thus benefit from an exclusive, time limited promotion, by receiving a simple SMS provided with a unique code. The customers can then validate the code in the store and thus benefit from the promotion. mCoupining is a great incentive for the customer to go to the store and thus stimulates the loyalty. xsmart, is a privileged partner of MNC, which offers a high level of expertise in mobile marketing. Ex: winaburger.ch

April 2009 : PostFinance launches mobile money transfer service from account to account on short code 474 powered by MNC’s technology

With this service, the PostFinance’s customers can to transfer money from one postal account to another by sending an SMS to the short code 474. The customer must own a postal account and registers once in order to use the service. The recipient of the transfer must also own a postal account. PostFinance is the first financial institution in Switzerland to offer its customers access to such simple banking services via their mobile phones.

April 2009 : MNC won a "Best of Swiss Web" Award

On April 2th. 2009, this year’s "Best of Swiss Web", the most important Swiss Award for Internet and mobile projects, has been awarded. Amongst almost 300 different projects that were handed in, 45 of the short listed projects were awarded with gold, silver and bronze prizes. MNC Mobile News Channel SA, an Alcatel-Lucent Company, won together with the Zurich Transport ZVV and its partner xsmart AG bronze medal for their mobile ticketing service “Night Supplement by SMS” in the category “Technology Innovation”.

For further info please see:
Best of Swiss Web
ZVV and its "Night Supplement by SMS" service
xsmart

March 2009 : Edipresse goes one step further with mMarketing

Edipresse is MNC’s first customer to use the advanced options of mMarketing. Not only our mMarketing solution allows to automatically the broadcast of marketing campaigns by sms, but it also allows to schedule and plan and them in advance in a very detailed way. Thus the customers having already placed of the orders of premium sms can be the first to receive the latest promotions.

February 2009 : MNC launches it’s mail2sms solution

The first customer of our mail2 sms solution is a major Swiss banking institution. whose customers now benefit from SMS alarms services. For example, the Bank’s clients receive detailed information on their accounts. The system is coupled with emails and generates sms automatically. With our mail2sms service, MNC offers a better synergy between email and sms. Our Client as for the bank increases its portfolio of communications tools for its customers.

January 2009 : MNC provides the Zurich Transports company an innovative ticket purchasing service (ZVV)

MNC is proud to provide the first transport ticket purchasing service via the mobile. Thus, the users of the Zurich Transports company (Zurcher Verkehrsverbund) can buy their ticket of transport directly by SMS.