Dave Merton over at Macsimum News put together this neat guide for sending free text messages to people in the US and Canada.
- Create a new email message.
- In the To: box, type 10digitnumber@teleflip.com. (1235551234@teleflip.com)
- Type a message and click send.
- The message will be sent to the cell phone with the number in the To: box as an email.
- For extra geek points, add the person’s number in the teleflip format to your address book so you can easily text them without having to remember their number!
This is interesting because of the email component – you can automate emails! You can set up alerts to email in the event of a service failure but getting them as a text message means you just need a phone (though admittedly with Push email coming along, who needs lo-li text messages!)
Maybe some of the smart telecoms guys can enlighten me on what would be the costs to run something like this in Ireland and the UK.