Thousands of people across Europe who can’t get to this Saturday’s European Drum Corps Championships in Rotterdam will be kept up-to-date with free text messages to their mobiles.

For the second year running, the Drum Corps Europe has chosen the TM4B SMS Gateway as its text messaging partner.

Anyone can go online to the Drum Corps Europe website and sign up for the free text alerts.

As soon as scores of the championship’s preliminary and final rounds are received, they will be texted out.

The Drum Corps Europe’s Marco Janssen said: “Sending so many texts to drum corps fans across Europe requires a reliable system, and we definitely found it with TM4B.

“We can’t afford to have text messages waiting to be delivered. They need to reach peoples’ mobiles as soon as the results are announced.”

He added: “We know TM4B will deliver, because they did an amazing job last year.”

It’s expected the service will also be used by people who visit the event but won’t be in the stadium all the time, and corps members who are practicing outside of the stadium.

TM4B’s network coverage extends to more than 150 countries across the world.

For the championships, all networks in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Sweden and Italy are supported.

TM4B’s managing director Fahed Bizzari said: “Text messaging is rapidly becoming the standard way to keep people up-to-date when they can’t make it to an event. This is an incredibly popular championships and we are delighted to be working with the Drum Corps Europe again.”

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NOTES TO EDITORS
• For further information please call Paul Green on +44 8452 303049, or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• The European Drum Corps Championships are on Saturday 29th September at the Sparta Stadium, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.drumcorpseurope.org
• TM4B, Text Messaging 4 Business, is a London based company which has been providing SMS text messaging services since 2003. It has a client based of almost 5,000 customers worldwide and acts as a single point of access to the wireless world for the sending and receiving of text messages. http://www.tm4b.com