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Any Question Answered (AQA) is a premium-rate SMS information and entertainment service based in the UK . Run by Issuebits Ltd, a company founded in 2002 by former Symbian CEO Colly Myers, mobile phone users can text AQA with any question and get a reply for a charge of £1 plus a standard message charge. The service operates through a network of home-based researchers who log into AQA's system, using the database of existing answers and their own sources, which can include Internet Search Engines , to come up with answers. Since its launch, AQA has answered over 7 million questionshttp://www.63336.com/news/pr_070625_7million.htm and answers over 14,000 questions a day.http://www.aqa.issuebits.com/news/press_070416.htm Issuebits currently employs over 700 researchers, including over 40 based in Australia , who were recruited to help answer the high volume of questions the service receives between the hours of midnight and 6 am.http://www.aqa.issuebits.com/press_061124.htm AQA is available for UK mobile phone users on Shortcode 63336 for £1, and recently started a service in the Republic Of Ireland using the number 57275 for €2. AQA was the first to market its services through a premium shortcode number, launching the service in April 2004http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/22/what_colly_did_next/. A number of similar premium shortcode services are also available, such as Texperts ,Launched as subscription service in September 2003, relaunched as per-use premium in August 2004 {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} AskMeNow in the US, and KVEST 7407 in Ukraine . AQA was named best mobile service at the Mobile Choice Consumer awards held on 30th September 2004, and is currently ranked the number 2 shortcode service in the UK by Hutchison 3G Telecommunications.http://www.three.co.uk/personal/help_support_/useful_information_/shortcodes.omp REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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