Re: Text messaging...
Elektron <elektron_rc5-FFYn/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.fire.general |
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On 18 Feb, 2004, at 19:21, Alessandro Ranellucci wrote: > On 17-02-2004 at 9:12, Mark H. Anbinder wrote: > >>> I assume AIM doesn't do international SMSes. >> >> I have no idea, and I don't know how, but I don't see why not. Can >> you do it from a phone in the US? > > Yesterday I sent an SMS to my Italian cell phone, but I haven't got it > so far. I once tried the ICQ SMS service, and it worked with Italian > recipients (although messages took 24 hours to get here...). > > Such a feature in Fire would be definitely USA-oriented ;-) Well I tried my hong kong cell phone, but I'm not sure if it's my side or not (because I'm not sure if that's in our plan). It's already a feature in Fire, IIRC. > Looked it up, here's a chart: > AT&T - free unlimited receiving, 10 cents/message to send > Verizon - 2 cents/message to receive, 10 cents/message to send > TMobile - 5 cents/message sent or received > Cingular - 10 cents/message sent or received > NexTel - 15 cents/message sent or received (*DANG*) > Sprint, the last of the major carriers, as best I can tell only works > with messages sent from the Sprint site, so their costs are > irrelevant. > > Based on this, a warning before sending them (esp. if better support > is added) would be great, so people don't spam cell phones for fun the > way I recently have (awww crud, on Cingular, prob $2 worth...). > Preferably one you can suppress. Or rather, I can bill someone I don't like if I know their cellphone number. Sounds like a huge flaw to me. - Purr ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Fire-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fire-talk Have a question? Please read the Fire Frequently Asked Questions: http://fire.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml