Lifestyle Africa SMS costs
The total cost of building the SMS system, as quoted by the technology developer, was within the research team’s budget. The research team’s institution was billed monthly for SMS implementation and support fees. The SMS developer paid up front costs to rent the project’s dedicated short code from the SA gateway, as well as the gateways’ annual renewal fee and the minimal cost per SMS message sent. The technology developer invoiced these costs back to the research team’s institution for reimbursement. These cost data were carefully recorded by the research team in order to conduct a cost–benefit analysis of the overall program. More specific analyses of the implementation costs associated with the 