[ale] OT: Send SMS to Cingular phone, no Internet

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

Christopher Bergeron wrote:

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> I might be way of base here, but I think your best bet would be to 
> dial into an ISP, establish a PPP connection and send an email message 
> to the sms account.  MOST (and I stress that most is not all) cell 
> phone providers provide email gateways to their SMS services.  Both of 
> my cell phones (2 different providers) provide an email address that 
> directly SMS's my [respective] phone.  The trend tends to be 
> PHONENUMBER at somesmsgateway.providername.com.  My ATT phone, for 
> example is:  4044315230 at mobile.att.net (i think).  My verizon phone, 
> on the other hand, is: 4042742060 at vbox.verizon.net (or something very 
> similar (any inaccuracies are to my beneift, so I'm not going to 
> verify those addresses).

Cingular definately has that feature, and that's a solution I've 
considered it but I *think* I would prefer the way I asked for it.


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