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The Sunday Times sportswomen of the year awards uses zamano's voting platform

zamano is the official SMS / IVR voting partner to the Sunday Times "Sportswomen of the Year Awards 2005"

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, honour 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.


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