zamano today announces its partnership with The Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Awards.
Mobile users around the UK can now vote via SMS/IVR for their favorite sportswomen as part of The Sunday Times Sportswomen of The Year Awards. The awards, now in their 18th year, honor
high-profile female athletes like Paula Radcliffe and Ellen MacArthur, promising young sportswomen and heroes working behind the scenes.
Mobile service provider zamano has been chosen to manage the SMS traffic and are also providing telephone lines. In return they will receive extensive branding in paper and online to
demonstrate their link with the awards. The deal forms part of their long-term strategy to support and associate themselves with national sporting events.
Andrew Mullins, General Manager, Times Newspapers said: We want to encourage as many of our readers as possible to vote and we know that our readers love to vote clearly find texting
extremely convenient.
zamano are delighted to be associated with such an event and to help real sports fans at grass roots level to acknowledge the female achievers in their chosen sport, said zamano UK
Country Manager, Declan Pettit.
In addition to successfully managing voting campaigns, zamano also provide other popular mobile interactive applications such as SMS Helptext, which allows organisations to manage
multiple conversations via text message. They also provide Premium rate SMS, MMS, WAP, corporate SMS and other innovate interactive applications such as SMS to TV, via their strong
partner base both in UK and Ireland.
Official SMS / IVR lines are now open. Please visit: http://www.zamano.com/vote for further information on how to vote
About zamano
As a leading mobile service provider with offices in Dublin and London, zamano enables business partners to deliver mobile content and interactivity via premium SMS, MMS, WAP and IVR. The
company s primary focus is the continued growth of the Premium Rate SMS business, the growing demand for WAP services and the ongoing development of new mobile services.