Re: Text messaging...

Elektron <elektron_rc5-FFYn/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.fire.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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



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