Comments on: Google’s Free SMS Search in Nigeria and Ghana

By: usman

usman — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:13:41 +0000

i will be happy if my comment is taken.

By: Loy Okezie

Loy Okezie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:49:07 +0000

Great post, Tim. MTN Nigeria has officially launched the service at their MTN Innovation Day which held in Abuja and Lagos this week.

I was there to witness the hype and it’ll be interesting to see the service evolve.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:45:38 +0000

Google SMS services is available to only MTN users in Nigeria. This has raised so many questions on my mind.

By: Kayode Muyibi

Kayode Muyibi — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:17:26 +0000

I am rolling out something along this line for the entire Africa, but would begin in Nigeria, stay tuned..

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:42:26 +0000

@Nana thanks for your great comments. I did check out Esoko and I remember visiting it back then when it was still Tradenet. Going through the site, I realized that they do have SMS alerts. That’s wonderful. I believe it’s a service that will enjoy good local patronage given enough publicity. It’s also rather interesting to see that there are no markets for Nigeria there.

By: Nana Kwabena Owusu

Nana Kwabena Owusu — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:42:15 +0000

Hey I forgot. Remember at BarCampGhana there was a session where one of the speakers talked about tide info etc for fishermen. With ‘Google Ocean’ now a part of Google Earth, who knows.

By: Nana Kwabena Owusu

Nana Kwabena Owusu — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:33:59 +0000

I agree with your views about the ‘services’ available. This is why for now, Tradenet now esoko (http://www.esoko.com) seems to be a better model for such a service.

But Google has the power to reach all, so let’s see how Google SMS will evolve.