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2:55 pm
according to the home page you can't do this, but does anyone want to volunteer their mobile number for testing? i just try to send you a text online and you see if you receive it. you risk losing 5 cents if it works, but it would be really helpful to yourself and everyone here 🙂
10:01 am
had no problem receiving SMS from google calendar, free so far.
4:25 pm
March 31, 2007
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Do you have a link? Then people can try it out themselves so that they don't have to publicly post their number. Or is this something you're developing yourself?
5:28 pm
I'm also able to sms from Google Calendar but all other attempts to text from Internet fail. I can't figure out what Google calendar is doing right.
3:44 pm
I emailed google about this awhile ago and this was the response they gave me after a few exchanges.
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Hi Johnathan,
Thank you for your patience. Please note that Google Calendar uses an SMPP
mechanism to send to Rogers, and thus we're unable to provide you with an
email address. We appreciate your understanding.
Regards,
The Google Team
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This was to the response asking what email address they were emailing the SMS to. It seems they don't use regular email to text but that special SMPP mechanism.
5:54 pm
There is this website TxtDrop via which one can send SMS over the internet. They seem to have a list of many Mobile Service Providers... I send them a questions while back on the subject... they said that there is some difficulty sending SMS via Internet to Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) as they need to distinguish "number rangers" (I assume that it refers to the 3-digit number in telephone ###-123-####) ... as there are many MVNO runing on the Rogers network. I replayed that if someone would provide list of "number ranges" that map to 7-11 SpeakOut -- could they do it?... although I did not got response.
10:44 pm
I came across a program that uses the SMPP protocol like google and it works!
http://www.activexperts.com/do.....d?p1=ax005
The only problem is it limits the number of messages you can send to 10.
I am still looking up whether I could setup my own SMPP server to handle sending messages.
But at least this is going somewhere. 😀
1:53 am
March 31, 2007
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According to the SMS Forum (which is shutting down this year 🙁 I just discovered it now!), there's no free lunches in setting up your own SMS-sending server. But who knows... times are a-changin'!
10:22 pm
If you're a facebook user (or the people that may want to contact you are) try "Send SMS"
http://apps.facebook.com/send-sms/
I have it on my facebook page, and it works well.
So far the texts I've received through it haven't cost me anything.
10:41 pm
Skype is a solution for texing from PC to 7-Eleven phone, if you are Skype-out user.
It costs the sender from Skype, however the receiver on 7-Eleven is not charged anything as I tested by myself.
On the opposite direction(7-Eleven to Skype or E-mail), we can use M-Mail service from Connectotel, a UK company.
http://www.connectotel.com/sms.....skype.html
http://www.connectotel.com/sms.....mmail.html
This costs me 25cents per message for the sender on 7-Eleven and no charge for Skype side.
REMINDER: A reply for the text message(originated from Skype) won't work. You should use another new message from your cell to reply. However, the reply from Skype would work.
It took about 20 hours for me to figure out these tips, and I hope my experiment would help you also.
Moreover, if there is any way to set up SMS(SMPP) server not using GSM modem(because it charges me the air/network time) or some devices alike, I wanna contribute something!
4:22 pm
The facebook sms doesn't seem to work for me. How did you do it?
1:51 am
https://www.vazu.com/
This site worked for me. You have to provide a callback number and it may add an ad message.
6:10 pm
The one thing that worries me about sending text messages from these third-party websites is that they might not care about protecting your privacy and you (or whoever the recipient is) ends up getting a ton of spam text messages down the road.
5:12 pm
who can help with setting up google calendar? which carrier did you select?
12:29 am
I selected "Rogers" as the carrier in Google calendar.
4:31 pm
this is half the string i get from google for the verification code:
Ö2§keAŧ§OYKAùCYKÑICeAIKeSMS
when i enter that back into google, it is rejected.
any help/suggestions/ideas?
11:22 am
This site works. It seems to be free???? Verify this.
I hope they don't spam us.
6:23 pm
Verify this.
There's nothing to verify. It works. See FAQ #6.
11:02 am
I've tried all these and they don't work (they all work on a Fido prepaid though)
peekamo
teleflip
gizmosms
rogers
the only one that works is:
http://freesms.1888usa.com/sms.....global.htm
