This is an advisory of the carrier provisioning schedules for this holiday season. Be sure to submit your programs by the dates listed below in order to start the process in 2011. Please note that provisioning delays may occur with the mobile operators due to staffing shortages during these timeframes. 3Cinteractive’s offices will be closed November 25 and 26, 2010 and December 24, 2010, in observance of the holidays. Please be reminded that mobile operator provisioning schedules are subject to change at any time.

AT&T has a planned provisioning freeze starting Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 12:00 PM EST (noon). Please keep in mind that programs submitted after this date will not begin the provisioning process until January 3, 2011.

All campaigns must be submitted to Sprint by 12:00 PM EST (noon) on Monday, November 22, 2010 (this is for the provisioning cycle occurring on Thursday, December 9, 2010).

There are no provisioning freezes scheduled at this time.

There are no provisioning freezes scheduled at this time.

In observance of the remaining 2010 holidays, Verizon Wireless will not review, approve, or provision any Short Code Programs on the following dates:

• Thursday, November 25, 2010
• Friday, November 26, 2010
• Friday, December 24, 2010
• Friday, December 31, 2010

There are no provisioning freezes scheduled at this time.

For any questions, please contact your account manager or 3Ci Support via telephone at 561.443.5505 or via email at support@3cinteractive.com.

My Mobile Applications, a mobile messaging services company with one of the most reliable communications networks across North America and Latin America, has partnered with 3Cinteractive, an industry leading mobile technology firm, to provide businesses a high quality mobile messaging, short message service (SMS), Premium SMS, and multimedia message service (MMS) solution.

My Mobile Applications has selected 3Cinteractive to handle all of the aggregation and migration of all of their SMS in the United States on AT&T, Sprint-Nextel, and Verizon Wireless. This includes the processing of millions of messages using My Mobile Applications’ and 3Cinteractive’s services to deploy powerful and complex mobile messaging functions.

This is a reminder of the carrier provisioning schedules for this holiday season. Be sure to submit your programs by the dates listed below in order to start the process in 2009.

The last date for AT&T to accept programs this year was Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM EST (noon). Please keep in mind that programs submitted after this date will not begin the provisioning process until January 3, 2010.

All campaigns must be submitted to Sprint by 12:00 PM EST (noon) on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 (this is for the provisioning cycle occurring on Thursday, December 10, 2009).

For 2010, the first provisioning cycle will begin on Thursday, January 21, 2010 and campaigns must be submitted to Sprint by 12:00 PM EST (noon) on Wednesday, January 13, 2010.

For 2009, Verizon Wireless has established provisioning “freezes” on programs (note that these freezes will take place 48 hours prior to the dates listed below):

• Thursday, November 26, 2009 (freeze starts Tuesday, November 24, 2009)
• Friday, December 25, 2009 (freeze starts Wednesday, December 23, 2009)
• Thursday, December 31, 2009 (freeze starts Tuesday, December 29, 2009)

Please note that there will be no provisioning for Virgin Mobile USA from Sunday, November 22, 2009 (meaning we are already into the first Virgin Mobile freeze) and ending Sunday, November 29, 2009 and then from Sunday, December 20, 2009 to Sunday, January 3, 2010. Normal operations for Virgin Mobile USA are scheduled to resume on Monday, January 4, 2010.

For any questions, please contact 3Cinteractive via telephone at 561.443.5505 or via email at support@3cinteractive.com.