How do you send text messages over the internet?

Entertainer

What's the best way of doing this? I tried one service and it said it wouldn't accept yahoo email addresses.

SocrateS_2

Entertainer wrote: »

What's the best way of doing this? I tried one service and it said it wouldn't accept yahoo email addresses.

You could go here: http://sendtxt.o2.co.uk/sendtxt/action/compose if you've got an o2 sim\phone. If you've got no credit, you can send ONE free text message. If you've got credit then you can send as many as your credit allows.

Most services will not allow you to sign up with a yahoo, hotmail, gmail et al or 'disposable' email addresses as simply put they think you're a potential spammer who will use the service for nefarious reasons and they don't provide the service for spammers, they have to pay.

HTH

[Deleted User]

Hi,

I've used this before, when I had lost my phone.

Snooze

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hi,

I've used this before, when I had lost my phone.

Caution with that, it costs the recipient a small fortune to reply to any messages you send...

imho

I use this http://www.fishtext.com/
1p to send a text to India and 2p to send Uk.get delivery reports as well. They do a free trial as well.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

Snooze wrote: »

Caution with that, it costs the recipient a small fortune to reply to any messages you send...

ah, is that how they make their money, there's nothing free.

Recipient can reply using their own mobile though, I only used it for a short time while I had lost my phone.

david39

You can do it with Skype - not sure of the cost, though.

scotsbob

http://www.sendsmsnow.com/

thefenman

david39 wrote: »

You can do it with Skype - not sure of the cost, though.

I use Skype when sending texts to overseas friends and reckon it costs about half the charge O2 makes.

Snooze

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hi,



ah, is that how they make their money, there's nothing free.

Recipient can reply using their own mobile though, I only used it for a short time while I had lost my phone.

That's what I'm trying to warn you about - they'll be charged a small fortune.

Alias_Omega

SocrateS wrote: »

You could go here: http://sendtxt.o2.co.uk/sendtxt/action/compose if you've got an o2 sim\phone. If you've got no credit, you can send ONE free text message. If you've got credit then you can send as many as your credit allows.

Most services will not allow you to sign up with a yahoo, hotmail, gmail et al or 'disposable' email addresses as simply put they think you're a potential spammer who will use the service for nefarious reasons and they don't provide the service for spammers, they have to pay.

HTH

Register & insert a mobile number to activate the online account and you get free 10 text messages a month to use up.

If you register your number, your number shows up in the message details.