Rogers's new SMS policies

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JF Mezei - 21 Dec 2004 04:22 GMT

In another newsgroup, I've heard that the email to SMS gateway for Rogers now,
instead of sending the email to the handset, sends a notification and the user
then must respond to the SMS in order to get the actual SMS. (something about
accepting charges for the SMS).

Ths would be truly annoying if it were to happen to Fido. (and will eventually
happen once we're folded into Rogers).

Interestingly, people are now going around this by embedding the message in
the from: email address thus not requiring the handset user to respond to the
SMS to get the email since the confirmation SMS includes the "from" address.

(eg: you have an SMS from <user@domain.tld>, reply with "R" to get the message).

Just set "user" to contain the whole message...

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Pavel - 23 Dec 2004 06:22 GMT

This hasnt affected Rogers customers. I just sent myself an email to my
phone and I received the email normally.

What is different is that it used to indicate the email address of the
sender, now it just indicates the numeric "from" just like you are
sending an SMS from the web.

: In another newsgroup, I've heard that the email to SMS gateway for Rogers now,
: instead of sending the email to the handset, sends a notification and the user
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:
: Just set "user" to contain the whole message...

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Mongo Sucks - 23 Dec 2004 21:21 GMT

> This hasnt affected Rogers customers. I just sent myself an email to my
> phone and I received the email normally.

Just wondering, how do I send email to my Fido phone? Is the email address
<my_phone_number>@fido.ca or something like that?

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Ototin - 23 Dec 2004 22:40 GMT

>> This hasnt affected Rogers customers. I just sent myself an email to my
>> phone and I received the email normally.
>
>Just wondering, how do I send email to my Fido phone? Is the email address
><my_phone_number>@fido.ca or something like that?

Yes, and include the area code.

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Good Man - 23 Dec 2004 21:29 GMT

> This hasnt affected Rogers customers. I just sent myself an email to my
> phone and I received the email normally.
>
> What is different is that it used to indicate the email address of the
> sender, now it just indicates the numeric "from" just like you are
> sending an SMS from the web.

congrats on being one of the very few. are you on a corporate plan?

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=506000

it's affected just about everybody except for some corporate accounts, who
rightly bitched loudly enough and have the money to sway it.

basically, you now have to pay 5cents to read an email-->sms message. visit
the link above.

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Pavel - 24 Dec 2004 21:10 GMT

: congrats on being one of the very few. are you on a corporate plan?
:
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
: basically, you now have to pay 5cents to read an email-->sms message. visit
: the link above.

Oh, no. Don't tell me that I have fallen into the "minority" category
again?!
Actually, I am on a corporate plan until then end of this month and
then in January I switch to a regular plan. I guess I will see then.

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