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This includes unlimited number of FREE SMS messages for emergency / crisis use. The FREE offer is available to all Australian Schools and Childcare Centres and is for 14 days use, which should be enough time for the current flooding to subside. After 14 days, schools and Childcare Centres can purchase the system or cancel the service.

The service is available for immediate use for schools and is very simple and straightforward to use. MGM Help Desk staff are on standby and ready to assist schools and Childcare Centres to set up and use the emergency SMS service.

If schools and Childcare Centres use SMS messaging for any other (non-emergency) purposes, normal SMS charges will apply.

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MGM Wireless has launched an innovative SMS Messaging Solution for Childcare Centres to make it easy to stay in touch with today’s generation of time-poor parents.

Using MGM’s Outreach™ with SmartSync™, Childcare Centres will be able to rapidly locate up-to-date contact details for parents and guardians and send a message to one or more parents or groups.

The typical messages are related to late breaking news, centre events and reminders, especially regarding logistics around child pickup times or access to the Centre.

MGM Wireless Executive Chairman Mark Fortunatow said that the launch follows trials and testing in South Australia, where 20 Childcare Centres are now using the SMS service.

“Today’s generation of parent depends on their mobile phone and are expert users of text messaging,” Mr Fortunatow said. “They are busy, want to be kept informed of events at their child’s daycare centre but they can’t always take phone calls during the working day. When they come home, they’re also too busy or tired and centre newsletters can be left unread…For the Centre, it means reduced phone call costs and less time spent on the phone discussing routine matters.”

MGM Childcare SMS Solutions seamlessly access parent contact records held in the centres’ existing Childcare Management systems such as Spike™, QikKids™, and KindCare™.

MGM Wireless SMS solutions are now used in well over 750 Schools and Childcare facilities.

Note: MGM Messages incorporate secure, direct routing to Australian carriers, which ensures reliability and meets all legislated Australian Child Safety and Privacy requirements.

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MGM Wireless Ltd. – (ASX:MWR)
Mark Fortunatow, CEO
Mobile: +61 421 328 984
Phone: +61 8 8431 2300
Email: mfortunatow@mgmwireless.com
Web: www.mgmwireless.com

About MGM Wireless Ltd and Messageyou, LLC

“The MGM board is delighted with this decision by the New Zealand Government, and we look forward to working closely with the ministry,” MGM chief executive officer Mark Fortunatow said.

“MGM will commence the rollout in June utilising a senior executive with long-standing links with New Zealand and build on the small business we had established some years back.”

“We intend to put our best foot forward on this in order to fully support the Government’s truancy initiative.”

The NZ Government has been cracking down on school truancy, including legislating last year to make it easier to fine parents of persistent truants.

It is estimated more than 4 per cent of NZ’s 750,000 students are truant each day.

MGM’s technology allows for SMS messages automatically to be sent to parents alerting them to a student’s absence and requesting an explanation.

Its products are in use in Australia and the US.

Smartsync™ maintains the latest record of family contact details for emergency and general communication for schools using the MGM Wireless cloud based Outreach™ SMS platform.

Combined with Outreach™, it provides a highly secure, specialised solution for schools to contact a student’s caregiver using the most up-to-date contact details and based only on knowing the student’s name – on a school-wide, class-wide, or individual student basis.

MGM Wireless Executive Chairman Mark Fortunatow said that Smartsync™ demonstrates the company’s continued commitment to assisting schools keep pace with the changes in today’s technology-driven society.

“Today’s family structures are more fluid than ever before,” Mr Fortunatow says. “This means that schools are typically having to keep track of several caregivers for each child who may have contact details that are subject to change.

“Smartsync™ overcomes this problem because when the school changes a contact detail for a child in the school management system, it will automatically update the SMS records.

“When the school receives an SMS from a caregiver they know whether or not it’s been validated through the school’s enrollment process. Smartsync™ makes Outreach™ even more effective and efficient for schools to streamline their school-to-home communication.”

Recent events such as flood, bushfire and cyclone underline the need for every school to have an easy way to contact all parents in an emergency, and the service also dovetails with the powerful Outreach™ scheduling facility.

“This means that schools can schedule an SMS broadcast, say for a junior school performance, to reach parents of year 7s, 8s, 9s at a particular date and time,” Mr Fortunatow explained.

“When that day comes around, the Outreach™ system will be looking at all the kids enrolled at that time and send the message. Families who no longer have children at the school won’t be sent messages but any new people who have enrolled will get the message. It’s a dynamically changing data structure.

“The service meets the need to communicate across the school community, from old scholars to parent and teacher groups, public or private, all the way from the largest to the smallest school can benefit.”

MGM Wireless School Messaging

MGM Wireless offers a suite of School Messaging products, from roll-marking to attendance to social communication. Its popular Outreach™ web-based messaging system allows schools to rapidly locate parent contact details and manage communication to constantly changing family group structures. The system:

• Eliminates the need to manually transfer data from the school’s current student management system – a process that is time consuming, error-prone and often requiring specialist IT skills.

• Ensures parent contact data need only be updated in one application – the school’s existing Student Management System.

• Ensures that school users can always be confident that the data they are using in Outreach™ is up-to-date – an important requirement when communicating late breaking news to the parent community.

• Enables schools to send SMS securely from the school or using any web connection, making it ideal in emergencies such as weekend notification of school closure for swine flu pandemic, and other issues.

With Smartsync™, school-parent contact data is continually being synched with Outreach™, which is hosted in an Australia based ASIO security cleared and ISO quality certified facility with three levels of redundancies. Primary, secondary and tertiary redundant services such as servers, power, internet and air-conditioning are all serviced by Tier 1 carriers.

This means that even in the direst circumstances – a school being under water due to flooding, or destroyed by earthquake or bushfire, the school will be able to contact its entire community from any web connection, because the application is held in cloud.

Mr Fortunatow said that Smartsync™ demonstrates the company’s continued investment in technology and innovation.

“Offering continual upgrades and evolution in a product life cycle highlights that we are at the cutting edge of educational technology and reinforces the value to schools.

“We give senior school leadership in particular the confidence that the MGM solution is for the longer term and is not a short term fix.”

Smartsync™ is currently compatible with 44 of the leading Student Management Databases in Australia.

About MGM Wireless

MGM Wireless is the Australian leader and specialist supplier of School to Parent SMS communication solutions. MGM Wireless’s reputation for security is well established and its School Messaging products are used by Government Education Departments in Western Australia, New South Wales and New Zealand. Smartsync™ uses secure internet protocol HTTPS and data encryption, meaning confidential school data stays as secure as technically possible. This is the same technology currently used by Australian Banks.

MGM Wireless, the MGM Wireless logo and Smartsync™ are registered trademarks of MGM Wireless Holdings Pty. Ltd. or a related company. All other products and company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. Various components and features of Smartsync™ are protected by Australian Innovation Parents.

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