Posted on 02 October 2006 by Mihai Moscovici
New info-tech initiatives in Moldova
Moldova is starting to do great about new technology initiatives.
After writing a Romanian post about bloguri.md, the first (?) Moldovan platform for hosting blogs, I have the opportunity a new project brought out by Simpals - a totally great initiative SMS Market.
Started on September 27, 2006, “SMS-Market†is an ad-newspaper. It works really simple, send your ad via SMS and it is published in the newspaper.
Potential ad-senders - SMS Market collaborates with the first GSM operator in Moldova – Voxtel – only. There are circa 700000 Voxtel cell-phone users. Not a bad market for a news paper.
Potential ad-users - publisher’s estimation is around 100000 potential buyers (SMS Market subscribers + visitors of online ad-board 999.md)
Cost per ad - Voxtel users - $0.65, for Tempo users - $0.80. Both prices are subject to VTA = 15% of the cost. The price is three or four times less than the first competitor Makler (the biggest ad-publication in Moldova) which charges circa $0.30 per word.
All the abovementioned premises create real opportunities for developing such a project in Moldova. Look forward to find out if this project will overcome the threats and will be successful enough to grow.
Look with me!
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October 4th, 2006 at 1:48 am
Sorry Mike, but VAT (value added tax) in Moldova is based on 20% of the cost.