March 6, 2008 at 1:10 pm · Authored by Ewan · Filed under SMS

The market is hotting up in the American question and answer text service marketplace with the arrival of ASKbyText. I had a note in from CEO Steve Smale with the details this morning.

If you recall, I tried out rival incumbent, Johnny27 regularly while I was in San Francisco (did you know that skiing generally burns 500 odd calories an hour?) and I can see a lot of demand for question answering services there.

ASKbyText, operated by Com’cetera, is entering the market at half the cost of Johnny27’s $1.99/text cost. ASKbyText is charging a simple $0.99 per question answered — I think that’s a far better price point for mass market adoption.

They’re live on US shortcode 70589 today — and they’re heading to the UK, Ireland and Australia imminently. In America? Try it out and let me know how you get on?

Every success to the team at Com’cetera!