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[edit] Factual inaccuracy

Disclaimer: I am not an independent party, as I have worked for RE5ULT as a contractor for a couple of years now. For that reason I am adding this note here, as I don't think it is appropriate that I make changes directly to the page itself. However, if no one responds after a while then I will update the page directly.

The final paragraph of this page suggests that AQA was the first to market with this idea, and that RE5ULT's 82ASK is a "similar service" "subsequently launched". That is incorrect. 82ASK was launched on 3rd August 2003, pretty much creating the market sector, approximately nine months before AQA was launched on 22nd April 2004. The best source on this is a PMN article from 30th April 2004; although it is no longer online the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has a copy of it. --DZR 16:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

A quick comment on the above. Re5ult (and many other companies) had email / text services running before AQA, but none of them were on a premium shortcode and all required subscriptions - hence not a genuine mass-market consumer service. Re5ult subsequently launched the service 82ASK in August 2004. For sources see re5ult's own website http://www.re5ult.com/news/launch.htm; also http://www.160characters.org/news.php?action=view&nid=1456;
That comment seems like a quibble about billing methods. If the crux of the service is the "ask a question by SMS and recieve an answer", then RE5ULT came up with the idea and have been running the service available to the public since September 2003. If someone else was offering a similar service at that time I would like to know who. They were also the first company to offer such a service commercially, on a subscription model as you correctly say, since January 2004. --DZR 18:56, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced statement

Unsourced statement I pulled from an html comment in the article: "Judges at the packed industry event in Old Billingsgate, London described the service as having a 'touch of genius'." ~ Booya Bazooka 00:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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