Taiwan Operators Team with China Post To Offer Bilingual SMS News Service

Taiwan Mobile and The China Post have teamed up to launch Taiwan’s first bilingual SMS news service and mobile newspaper, China Post reports. Available as a monthly subscription to Taiwan Mobile, TransAsia Telecommunications, and Mobitai Communications users, the service delivers information in a bilingual English/Chinese SMS format. For this reason, the service has also been dubbed the “SMS English Classroom.” The companies hope the service will double as a mobile education offer to meet growing demand in the country for English education.

The SMS news service, which users can personalize according to their interests, will offer news across five categories (global news, business, sports, life & health, national news) and deliver users one “bilingual story capsule per category” per day. The SMS service charges users TWD60 ($1.80) per month per news category.

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