“I quickly realized that this was
an opportunity, because to change out the numbers manually would be tedious.
So, CodeApp was a pre-emptied solution to the problem. There are other
international apps out there but I still wanted to put my app in the game”
Jerome
Campbell, 31-y-o developer and app designer for the CodeApp
The date for the transition to 10
digit dialing came and went without much fanfare in Jamaica.
10 Digit dialing took effect on Thursday May
31, 2018 with little or no problems as noted in the article “Mandatory
10-Digit Calling Takes Effect Today”, published Thursday
May 31, 2018 by Romario Scott, The
Jamaica Gleaner.
This is because the Telecom
Providers made sure that whenever anyone made a call without either the 876 or
658 dialing codes, they were told that they had to add those digits in front of
the number in order to make the call.
Still, many were caught off guard
despite being told about it since last year as reported in my blog
article entitled “OUR,
NANP 658 area code for Jamaica heralds MVNO Telecoms for Digicel and FLOW”.
Some jamaicans, however, who did
not have the time to add the new area codes, turned to the Google Play Store on
their smartphones, seeking a solution.
They soon found one brilliant Jamaican
software developer Jerome Campbell, who had developed the CodeApp
App,
which many Jamaicans have since downloaded as reported in the article “‘App-Solutely’
Jamaican - UTech Graduate Creates One Of The Most Popular 10-Digit Converters
Available In Google Play Store”, published Sunday
June 17, 2018 by Carlene Davis, The
Jamaica Gleaner.
CodeApp
App - 10 Digit dialling App clocks 50,000 downloads
CodeApp
App,
was developed by a 31-year-old Jamaican information technology specialist and
app designer named Jerome Campbell. The app, which is mentioned on his CodeApp Websiteis
the second highest rated country code converter in the Google Play Store,
clocking in at more than 20,000 downloads and boasting a 4.5 rating out of
five.
1. Free
2. Premium
The iPhone version is still in
development and will be available by June 30. A very popular app, its clocking
in at about 50,000 downloads thus far, making money mainly from Google Adsense,
to quote Jerome Campbell: “At the current rate I’m expecting 50,000 downloads
by the end of this month, it’s making a bit of money, it’s building”.
For persons thinking that after the
numbers are converted the app is useless, Campbell had this to say, quote: “The
app has value added features to check data and credit balances, send please
call me and please credit me messages and other (quick) codes. Its download
size is less than four megabytes”.
This means that the app is a value
buy, helping many smartphone owners in Jamaica to switch to 10 digit dialling
as heralded in my Geezam blog article entitled
“OUR’s 10-Digit Dialling
means MVNO and Competition coming to Digicel and FLOW”.
And no, according to the developer,
he's not collecting your data to resell to a third party advertiser, quote: “In
this age of scamming and hacking, persons might think that Jamaicans are not
tech-savvy, but we are very aware and very cautious, as opposed to other apps,
which we don’t know who is behind it, I’m putting my reputation behind this
app, so that is a guarantee that I’m not harvesting the contact information”.
Jerome
Campbell's CodeApp App –Lecturer ArrowEX, Inc on the Rise
A Lawrence Tavern native who grew
up with both of his parents, he was quite an earlier achiever. After having
attended Lawrence Tavern Primary and Oberlin High schools, he then went to
UTECH (University of Technology) at the age of 15 years old.
Currently an adjunct lecturer at
the VTDI (Vocational Training Development Institute), he teaches Mobile App
Development along with other information technology based courses to young
students. Thus this company is a quite a feat considering that when he went to
UTech, he had no idea what a programmer was, muchless that he could make a
career out of it, quote: “When I entered UTech, I didn’t know what a programmer
was; I was told there were a lot of jobs working with computers, so my mother
encouraged me along that line. Programming came naturally to me and I just
began to become good at it.”
Several years later, he graduated
with a Bachelor of Science degree from UTech and a Master of Science in
Computer Science from the University of the West Indies. Unable to find a job,
he started his company called ArrowEX,
Inc
which is incorporated in Delaware in the United States.
His company currently has global
reach and multinational invests, with all the development being done in Jamaica
by Jamaicans. He started the company due to the fact that he was unable to get
a job immediately after leaving university.
He began developing apps for
himself, with CodeApp
App being
among the successes among his 20 apps he's developed thus far. So what will he
develope next?
Stay tuned as we go through the
adjustment to this new paradigm as we'll soon run out of area codes in the next
few years!
Here’s the link:
For more information, please
contact the:
Office of Utilities Regulation
(OUR)
36 Trafalgar Road
Kingston 5
Telephone: 876-968-6053,
1-888-CALL-OUR (2255-687)
Fax: 876-929-3635
Website: http://www.our.org.jm
Email: consumer@our.org.jm
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