Guam Wireless Ecosystem

I find it kind of funny that fairly recently literally all of Guam's wireless carriers have come out with text messaging services similar to our pisotext service. Similar, but not the same.

I am glad to see that our tiny operation is making waves in the greater telco industry. It took them a while but I think they are finally figuring out what we knew since 2001. IT&E has been particularly aggressive in promoting their service. Too bad the implementations are way off and not what the consumers want/need.

That is why Syner-G remains king of the hill and servant of the Filipino people worldwide.

Syner-G SMS Services

Funny thing happened a couple months ago when we met with the management of one of the leading wireless carriers here on Guam, we got around to comparing numbers. Apparently we do more SMS traffic to/from the Philippines on one day than they do in one month. We could literally see their jaws drop at the numbers we were giving them.

Given that we met with a leading wireless carrier(maybe the biggest) and there are only around 5 carriers here, the numbers of the other carriers would not be that far off. If we multiplied the monthly average for the carrier by 5, the multiple would still not equal our daily average. Very cool.

Now admittedly, SMS is not a big money maker for the carriers. They sort of just leverage SMS to get the voice traffic, so while our traffic is high, they are still the one making the money.

We love the fact that we are disrupting the communications industry on Guam with our tiny (3 person) operation. Not bad for a service that was built from scratch by us. I can only imagine what we can do if we had the money/budget of the big communications companies.

Be sure keep a watch out though, we are still building enhancements and new services all the time. Maybe we can disrupt another industry...