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2:51 am
January 4, 2010
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This forum is top rate- wish Virgin had something like this.. I won't be with them long 'tho..
Does anyone know if you can send a text message to Speak Out mobiles through the Rogers web based two way website similar to http://websms.rogers.page.ca/2way ??
Bell & evil Telus have a web based page where you can "send a message" to those specific subscribers too. And -- I have had success sending a SMS (short text) to my mobile phone via my email in the format of an email address. For example: 403xxxXXXX@vmobile.ca
Does Speak Out have anything similar? Or can you use the Rogers platform for SO text messaging?
Great forum.. thanks alot!
3:31 am
January 3, 2010
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The one thing I do know -- from having tried it -- is that you can send a message from the Rogers website to a Speak Out phone. I did this while signed in as a Rogers user.
8:26 am
July 12, 2009
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You can create an account on that Rogers page to send text messages from your computer to any cell phone that can receive text messages without being a Rogers customer.
Once you create the account using your SpeakOut number, and verify it by text message, you will be able to send free text messages to any cell phone with text ability regardless of which carrier the recipient uses.
The FAQ that shows up once you create an account says:
The user ID to access this site is not in any way connected with your Rogers.com account. It is used only to identify messages you have sent, and any replies received. You do not need to be a Rogers subscriber, or have a Rogers.com account to access this service.
The messages sent from the site will show as having come from a sequential number that is generated by the Rogers site -- not a real phone number. The message will have your SpeakOut number in the "From" field in the body of the message. If the recipient is a SpeakOut (or any other service but Rogers) customer, they can not reply to the message directly. The reply address will be the sequential number from Rogers and the message will disappear into cyberspace or tell you it failed to send (I have had both results.). If the recipient replaces that sequential number with the actual number from inside the message, they can reply to your phone (not to the web site).
If the message recipient is an actual Rogers customer, they can reply to the message directly, and it will arrive on the web site with a link that will allow you to initiate a text chat between the site and the Rogers Phone.
That is not necessarily what the Rogers Site says, but it is the results I found with a bit of trial and error, and by being charged for a few text messages on each of SpeakOut, Rogers, and Telus phones. Your results may be different??
