Pieter Streicher
Dr Pieter Streicher graduated from WITS with a BSc-Eng(Civil) in 1991 and he received his PhD from UCT in 1996. After working as a civil engineer at HHO Africa, Dr Streicher, along with Richard Simpson, (BSc-Eng(Civil), MBA), established Celerity Systems in mid-2000 as an IT services company focusing on the marketing and management of Internet-based solutions. BulkSMS.com was established in 2000 as a division of Celerity Systems to focus on SMS messaging solutions for commercial and non-commercial communications. As a leading wireless application service provider, BulkSMS.com offers bulk SMS messaging solutions to large and small businesses, public benefit organisations, and individuals.
Pieter Streicher's Recent Articles
The fight against SMS spam
29 March 2012 - AdvertisingDespite SMS’s amazing longevity and the ability to adapt it for a range of personal and business communication needs over the last two decades, SMS is not immune to misuse ...
Savvy SA schools use SMS for mass communication
16 February 2012 - MobileA Cape Town mom is more than a little displeased with her children’s primary school. During the recent heat wave in the Western Cape, the school cancelled athletics practice due ...
Putting a techno action plan in place
25 January 2012 - Digital MediaPeople might joke about BlackBerry addiction, and dub the device a ‘crackberry’, but the fact is we can get drawn into the world of smartphones and laptops to the exclusion ...
Permission-based marketing can hinge on an SMS
11 January 2012 - MobileBy now, most companies should have woken up to the fact that if they want to stay in business for any length of time, permission-based marketing is the order of ...
Is technology taking over your child’s December holiday?
8 December 2011 - OpinionDecember holidays have the potential to bring families together after a year of hard work, academic pressure and busy social schedules. However, with family members that have very specific, individual ...
Watershed year for SMS approaching
6 December 2011 - MobileNext year, 2012, is the year the electronic communications opt-in vs opt-out debate is going to come to a head, and the fallout is going to have a significant impact ...
