Canadian Carriers Tear Down SMS Network Barriers

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Canadian Carriers Tear Down SMS Network Barriers
http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/17064.html

> All four of Canada's wireless carriers have launched nationwide
> text-messaging service simultaneously, joining forces in an
> interoperability agreement that they contend will fuel the growth
> of SMS (short message service) for each of them. Some 10 million
> customers of Bell Mobility, Microcell PCS, Rogers AT&T Wireless
> and Telus Mobility now can send and receive SMS text messages
> across all networks in Canada.

Cool! I have been bugging my friends to get GSM-based phones so
we can send SMS messages to each other, but now it doesn't matter
any more: you can use whatever lame non-standard phone system you
want and still send messages to those of us on the world standard
GSM network.

I just tested it by sending a message to Chris' phone (on Bell's
network? or Rogers?), and it worked fine, though he couldn't send
me one back. (maybe his provider doesn't have that set up yet.)

While I'm on the subject, here's a really cool free SMS info
gateway I found a while ago, great for hockey scores, weather,
phone directory listings, etc:

   2-way SMS Info Services
   http://www.vex.net/~lawrence/sms.html

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