(Nigerian) Mobiles Phones "speak English" to Check Flight Schedules

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Nigeria (Text2Fly - October 02, 2009) The simple task of finding the next available flight is an inefficient and labour intensive undertaking for the Nigerian business traveller. Nigerian airlines don't operate call centres and the Internet is slow. So the business traveller must assign staff to search all airline web sites or even send them to the ticketing office through stifling traffic.

Text2Fly, a new mobile service that lets you check Nigeria's domestic flights via SMS, intends to solve this problem by putting a "travel agent" in your mobile phone.

Text2Fly makes it easy by letting users enter an SMS command that appears to be an English language sentence for example, "From lagos to abuja on friday at 6pm". Your schedules arrive in seconds.

From: International Business Times