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- Conquerist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+437). Google:
http://toolbar1.google.com/send/sms/index.php - slundal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Borrow a friends phone. Works every time!
- MCMookie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Free to SEND these, still most mobile services have a fee to receive text messages.
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31You have to pay to receive a message? That's gotta suck.
I've never had to pay, nor would i pay, to receive a msg from some one in the UK. - stev31h, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24AOL Instant Messenger works well for me...
Send an IM to +1 then the phone number - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23@gamerzworld
a lot of times i dont know what the other person is doing, so ill send them a text and when it is convenient for them, they'll answer me back with "o im just studying", "@ work", etc. So I dont catch them at a bad time. Phone calls are too abrupt, as in the person has to stop whatever they were doing to talk to you, and sometimes the conversations are a bit more rushed. With texts I usually text them, then call if they aren't doing anything. More relaxed that way. - intekra, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23@gldfshnpcklejar
People like you, (and my ex-girlfriend) should die horrible, painful deaths. - chrisp9446, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19@gldfshnpcklejar
You can turn off text messages, you just have to do it through the service provider. - Anand999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It's one of the oddities of the US mobile phone market. Almost every providers give you free night and weekend voice minutes, free mobile to mobile voice minutes, etc. But text messages are 10c-15c a piece. Never mind that a voice call ties up a time slot on your trunks for the entire duration of a call and involves several times the amount of messaging that an SMS call does.
However, people are willing to pay 10c a message but won't way 10c/minute for voice, so it's all about where the profit is. - gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -15/+268) CALL THE DAMN PERSON!! You have a Cell PHONE! Not a damn text sender/reader that costs you more!
- sergeantmudd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Is it possible that SMS is the most expensive $/kilobyte way to send data out there today? Seriously, 15 cents to send maybe 200 bytes. Ridiculous.
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8In Australia I'm pretty sure we are only charged for "premium SMS"s, which are the crappy services like daily horrorscopes, sport updates, and useless crap like that. SMSs from say ICQ, or other phones are free to recieve.
- Conquerist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7off topic: there is a [reply] button under each post which is not a reply itself.
on topic: yea, even though technology keeps getting cheaper, telcos like to keep the prices high. Damn telcos! - webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"it's good, sends you email spam"
Eh? Masochist are we? - robinator08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Text message == Email , really it does, so why should you let other people have your e-mail address to your phone? Why not look up the e-mail address for the phone and get rid of the middleman, and when people reply it will be replied to your e-mail account.
link:
http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm - Tawni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I pay a standard flat $50 fee for cricket wireless it is unlimited min, text and mobile web in any market that they have service. Cheap reliable and great service. http://www.mycricket.com No, i don't work for them I'm just a happy customer after having used cingular and sprint only to hate them now.
- loualbano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Has anyone used these services that can testify that these services aren't harvesting active phone numbers for spam purposes?
- Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What I want is a way to use my unlimited data connection to send SMS via a WAP interface. Now that would rock :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Your link added in a parenthese...
http://www.zemble.com/ - aidanr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://www.mackers.com/projects/o2sms/
sms from the command line :] - heavyd14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@imustbeemo
Cingular charges for incoming, which is especially fun when you get spam. - SuperCujo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It isn't dishonest...
It IS free to send the message. Just not to recieve it because of some strange US pricing system. - sail191912, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It must suck to have to pay for incoming SMS. What if the message is spam?
I'm from Asia so the only time I pay for incoming messages (and calls) is when I'm in a different country using international roaming. Outgoing SMS is roughly 2 US cents per message over the alloted free monthly messages in our place. - acceptab1euname, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@BryanTheCrow: how many more times are you going to post that ***** link? You smell like a spammer.
- Splendor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@chrisp9446
Not all providers will allow you to turn off SMS capability. I know for a fact that T-Mobile will not allow you to remove the service. - nanboya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Is announcing yourself as an "alpha" service the new way to go these days?
- lisaedwardsen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For Canadians:
If the person you're calling is on the Rogers network, you can send & receive free 2 way text messages to them using:
http://www.rogers.com/english/wireless/sendpcs.html
No account is required to send text messages but if you want to be able to check the status of sent msgs and get incoming replies, you need to sign up for a free account. - piper999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There is a much easier way to 'harvest' phone numbers as you put it.
It is commonly referred to as a 'phone book'. - nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Aussies:
http://www.motocrew.com.au -- havent tried this one but apparently it gives you 100 texts a day.
http://www.smspup.com -- I DO use this one, it's good, sends you email spam, you get 1 point (sms messages cost 1 point to send) per email you view. - Mactard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3cant you just send from any email? ***** duh
##########@cingular.net or something like that,
I used to do this a few years ago
T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
this list might need updating - sickanimations, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It seems weird to have to pay for receiving SMSs, because you don't always have a say in what you receive. Here in Australia we only pay to send SMSs (except for premium services)
- acceptab1euname, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dude, it's one thing when you post your link once or twice in response to comments....posting essentially the same thing four seperate times seems pretty excessive, especially when there's less than 100 comments total and it's not like the threading is going to hide the first one, or two, or three. That having been said, I'm willing to accept that you're not a spammer (just somebody who has no idea how to effectively market on digg), and withdraw my statement regarding your smell.
Here's a point I'd like to bring up, though: EVERY spammer claims that they're offering a "useful & relevant service".
....just sayin'. - BryanTheCrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Move to Europe... That's exactly what they offer there... Texting is absurdly expensive here in the States since none of the carriers are competing in this space. The carriers make far more money off of text messages (& other wap-push services) than they do off of voice...
- nanboya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Bell Mobility in Canada is number@txt.bell.ca
Enjoyl - FlyboyP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3T-Mobile US:
http://www.t-mobile.com/messaging/
or email
10digitphone@tmomail.net - surfmadpig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i remember a time, not so long ago, when sms messages from the web were truly & completely free and unlimited... :(
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Teleflip works great, as long as the recipient has never taken advantage of "number portability", and changed moved their phone number to a new provider.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The problem is, if I'm in front of my computer I probably don't need to send an SMS to someone anyway. I do my texting when I'm out and about. Find me a way to get free or cheap texting from my phone. I wish just one carrier would offer a plan with hardly any minutes, but a generous SMS plan; I'll bet that would serve a lot of people's needs.
- fani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is this what is keeping Sanjaya Malakar in American Idol ? Or is it the folks in the Indian call centers voting away to glory...
- fluxingtontheIV, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3they should really just get rid of SMSing. Japan uses emails and those are way better. no character limit and sending between PC and cell is easy.
of course north america is still way behind in cellphone technology...
Note: did not mean to post as reply to Mactard, meant as seperate reply to thread, sorry :( - subliminalurge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"It must suck to have to pay for incoming SMS. What if the message is spam? "
You just go ahead and pay for it anyway, because the amount of my time that it would take to even attempt to call any cellular company's customer service and get it taken off of my bill is worth many, many times more than the dime they charged me.
(And, yes, it does suck.) - lbih, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cingular does too. I think AT&T before they were bought by cingular was the only one that didn't.
- DiggLord, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Telus is xxxxxxxxxx@msg.telus.com for all you canadians, and its free to recieve. I use this alot for prank texting and pissing people off.
- ImASpartan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can simply use AIM just enter: +1 then the phone number as the 'buddy name'. IE: +15551234567 Free to send, and the cell phone user can respond.
(sorry.. looks like a repeat from above) - succubuskiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Isn't it great when someone works for Zemble.com and then SPAMs the comments at least 4 times with the website promoting it, with some ad copy. Who could that be. At least say that is where you work there.
*cough* BryanTheCrow *cough* - succubuskiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I posted that above cause it was ridiculous for the number of posts that he did with the website. If it was one, okay we get the point, people can read. But to reply to everyones frigging response with your 'ad copy' is annoying. This is when I wish you can have a way to mark comments as spam to get them removed instead of just thumbing down.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i'm using yahoo messenger to text my GF at work every day. It works really well.
- glasmodiar, on 10/23/2007, -1/+3I've been using SMS Everywhere (http://smseverywhere.com/send.htm#SENDER). It seems that the messages don't always get through though. I suspect that not all cell phone providers can receive messages sent in this way. Anybody else have positive/negative experience with PC to cell texting? Which ones work best?
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dammit, they don't have Three / Hutchinson3G.
- whalesalad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.anontxt.com/
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