On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Richard Prosser <
rhprosser@...> wrote:
>
> Send an SMS (text) message to a cellphone? (via your cellphone
> provider, or possibly one of the "free" services that (used to ?) let
> you send x free messages a day. Not sure how well it works as it
> rarely worked for me (in NZ) but I know I can set it up with Vodafone
> or Telecom if I'm willing to pay 20c a text.
SMS seems to be especially popular in Asia (at least East Asia
and Southeast Asia). Here people sent billions of SMS every
year. So this seems to be quite a popular solution here. For
example, a colleague just implemented a program which
sends out SMS alerts (along with emails) to alert inventory issues.
Here SMS is from 5c S$ (3.5c US$) down to free depending on the plan.
Reference: 10 Billion SMS were sent in one week during
Chinese New Year in 2006 in China.
http://switch.sjsu.edu/mambo/switch22/mobile_pac_rim.htmlHowever it seems SMS is not that popular in USA. Maybe due
to historical reasons. It is said that last time CDMA did not
support SMS well.
Xiaofan
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