This Ramadhan has been extremely important for us in the fact that we’ve moved from being a paid service to being a free service. Not only that we’ve also opened our service up to over 440+ mobile operators worldwide. Exciting stuff.

In the next few weeks we are going to start adjusting our services to include a deeper and wider range of content along with other tweaks and and changes. We’ll keep you posted on our progress with regular updates.

Have a great Eid and may Allah bless you and your families.

MyAdhan has helped raise over hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities in and outside Ramadhan. Ramadhan 2009 has been our most successful Ramadhan ever.

Watch this space.

Ohh and before we forget, make sure you make the most of the last 10 days of Ramadhan.

Check our blog later this week on a Google Map of the places where we’ve delivered messages to since making our service global. It’s truely inspiring…

We recently posted a request for donations to MyAdhan.com and have had a really positive response. We do however need your support to maintain this service and keep it 100% FREE.

All money donated will be used to send content messages out to the many people who request to use our services. MyAdhan has had 4 successful years of delivering Islamic services and we intend on growing and providing many other services in the near future.

We were initially using FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 2 letter country codes for identifying countries, however we had issues with requests from South Africa and Nigeria which meant we had to change to using the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 2 letter country codes.

The changes are now live and we’ve also just included a helper function to still support requests using “UK” which are now converted to “GB”. Sorry for any trouble caused and we hope we don’t have to change anything again on the code.

As a side note, the service is actually clever enough to pick up your country from the International Dialing Code you’re SMS texting from, so you can do a search for a place name or post/zip code without a country code. There are a few exceptions like the United States (US) as the +1 code is also used by Canada (CA) and other countires in the Caribbean which would make it hard to search for the correct city in the correct country. There are also a few other countries that have clashes so we decided to make the country code something you have to state in your request in all the help and example messages.

Here are some of the countries we’ve delivered Wallpapers, Hadiths, Quranic Tafsir, MP3 Adhan and Quran, Prayer and Fasting times to:

• Ghana
• Nigeria
• Kenya
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Botswana
• Mozambique
• Swaziland
• Ireland
• Finland
• Germany
• Saudi Arabia
• India
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom

We’re going to try to build a google map of all the places we’ve delivered messages to in the next week or so. Watch this space.

We decided to enable our services usage over a UK Vodafone number +447786201102 which means anyone in the world can now use our services with only the charge for sending us a message, UK mobile phone owners should be able text us for FREE via text message tariff bundles. All International text messages are charged at an International rate. You should check with your moblie operator for sending rates.

The premium shortcode we currently use for the UK (60066) is still operational but will cease to run in a few months. we’ll keep you posted on things.

Have a great Ramadhan and spread the word about our FREE service.