Re: UKNM: SMS

[Ben Thompson]

Well from my research the options are:-


bulksms.com (seriously expensive).

quios.com (used by excite and msn.

Lycos use BT Cellnet (through genie).


And the latter two I've not got a clue on prices but they're bound to be

cheaper than bulksms.


As for free I doubt it. We are talking mobile phone companies here and hence

nothing is cheap (after all they've got £22billion to find). Every system

I've seen features a cost per message (if you're using a lot you might be

able to get it down to 4p a message but that will probably require 1,000,000

messages a month.


Interestingly, speaking to Orange about just this, they used to have a text

only talk plan (text1500). They closed it two years ago as inter-network

messaging became possible.


Ben


On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:37:43PM +0100, Zing!n Media wrote:

> Hi All,

>

> Does anyone know of a company which offers free branded SMS messaging to

> users of portal sites?

>

> Cheers,

>

> Paul

>

> ==

>

> Paul Carr

> Managing Editor

>

> Zingin.com - The UK's finest internet guide.

> http://www.zingin.com


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