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Phil Schuman - 04 May 2004 13:49 GMT

Our son has a Virgin Mobile phone (which uses the Sprint network)
and it seems to be work ok for him - and it supports text messaging
which amazingly enough since the basic Sprint network does not....
I was wondering how the text messaging logistics works
on the different phones and their related networks ?
I guess you either send each text message to a gateway of some kind
111-123-1234@gwxxx.com
or to a local (same network) phone 111-123-1234

So every "H R U" and the reply/conversation gets sent this way ?

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Richie - 04 May 2004 17:11 GMT

Or course, Sprint supports text messaging. You just have to call them so
they activate it on your account.

SMS is not like email. It's send through a service center (that is a
telephone number) operated by the carrier. There are also gateways that
allow you to send text messages to mobile phones via email (i.e.
Area+Phone@teleflip.com).

> Our son has a Virgin Mobile phone (which uses the Sprint network)
> and it seems to be work ok for him - and it supports text messaging
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>
> So every "H R U" and the reply/conversation gets sent this way ?

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Joseph - 04 May 2004 21:31 GMT

>Our son has a Virgin Mobile phone (which uses the Sprint network)
>and it seems to be work ok for him - and it supports text messaging
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>
>So every "H R U" and the reply/conversation gets sent this way ?

Send to tendigits@teleflip.com and it will always be delivered no
matter which North American network you wish to use.
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remove NONO from .NONOcom to reply

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CharlesH - 05 May 2004 01:01 GMT

>Send to tendigits@teleflip.com and it will always be delivered no
>matter which North American network you wish to use.

Does teleflip deal with local number portability (LNP)? It used to be
that one could look at the area code + prefix and know which carrier
(landline or wireless) owned the number. And knowing which wireless
carrier, you would know their SMTP portal (e.g., vtext.com for Verizon
Wireless). But with LNP, you have to have hooks into the phone network
to query a database to determine which carrier handles a specific number.

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Chip Orange - 05 May 2004 01:25 GMT

No, but you can tell it which carrier does handle a specific number and it
will store that info.

> >Send to tendigits@teleflip.com and it will always be delivered no
> >matter which North American network you wish to use.
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> Wireless). But with LNP, you have to have hooks into the phone network
> to query a database to determine which carrier handles a specific number.

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Andy M --Tampa Bay-- - 05 May 2004 14:36 GMT

>> Send to tendigits@teleflip.com and it will always be delivered no
>> matter which North American network you wish to use.

excellent! thanks.

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