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2002/1/7-8 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:23481 Activity:high
1/7     Anyone has any good experience with website that allows one to
        send SMS message?  Please name a few...
        \_ http://www.attws.com
        \_ SMS in the US, or SMS in the civilized (well, the "Our cellular
           phone system is standardized and doesn't use circa 1985 technology)
           world? -dans
           \_ SMS in US and Europe.  Btw, I am using cingular network.
              \_ So it breaks down like this: The US cell phone carriers use
                 different SMS standards so, generally speaking, it is
                 non-trivial to send an SMS across networks (i.e. AT&T
                 customer messages Cingular customer) in the US.  At this
                 point, most of the US carriers provide web-based SMS gateways
                 to message their own customers.  To the best of my knowledge,
                 there is no network-neutral SMS gateway in the US.  Much of
                 the problem stems from the fact that most of the US carriers
                 implemented SMS messaging as a hack over their existing
                 half-baked text paging systems.
                 Totally different story in Europe.  It's been a few months,
                 since I last looked, but there were several competing
                 web-based SMS gateways that could send to pretty much any
                 phone on the European GMS system.  Most were charging a small
                 fee per message (~10 cents).  Google should make it easy to
                 find specifics. -dans
                 \_ thanks for the detail explanation.  interesting to
                    know the differnece between US and Europe.
                 \_ and cingular, at&t in western states, voicestream,
                    and more all operate GSM in the US (though on a
                    different frequency).  they're also deploying
                    GSM/GPRS (GSM "3G") like mad.  should be able to
                    message other GSM users worldwide from these
                    networks, but I don't use the messaging on mine so
                    I can't tell you for certain.  search usenet for
                    any of those words in combination for lots of
                    lively discussions.
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