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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / T-Mobile / February 2005How to send an SMS without knowing carrier
Okay, I finally finally finally, through searching and searching found a legit website that will send an sms to any cell phone without knowledge of carrier. My friend at Sprint PCS actually told me about it. The cell phone can even answer back, and it's completely free unlike most of those sites that will do the same thing. cellphonenumber@teleflip.com It works with all North American carriers. If you have questions just go to: www.teleflip.com I have no affiliation with this website...I'm just so excited to have finally found it. Apparently it's been around for quite a while. I'm going to post this to all of the carriers news groups. -Brian in Kansas City Excellent! Thanks for posting it. From:B crtconsulting@sbcglobal.net > Okay, I finally finally finally, through searching and searching > found a legit website that will send an sms to any cell phone without [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > -Brian in Kansas City You posted this same (old) information in several cellular newsgroups. In the future, please use the cross-posting feature of your news client. That way we don't have to read the same post multiple times.  SignatureJohn Richards > Okay, I finally finally finally, through searching and searching found a > legit website that will send an sms to any cell phone without knowledge of [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > -Brian in Kansas City > It works with all North American carriers. If you have questions just > go to: > www.teleflip.com "Works"...that point is disputable. Took more than 24 hrs for the message to arrive. René wrote: >>It works with all North American carriers. If you have questions just >>go to: >>www.teleflip.com > > "Works"...that point is disputable. Took more than 24 hrs for the message > to arrive. I agree although my wait time wasn't quite as long as your but it took about 6 hours. How much spam do I end up signing my phone up to by using this service? How they're making money isn't obvious from their web page and I know they're not doing this for free out of the goodness of they're heart. I'd feel better about trying it if they were upfront as to where the revenue stream is. > Okay, I finally finally finally, through searching and searching found a > legit website that will send an sms to any cell phone without knowledge of [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > -Brian in Kansas City I started reading their privacy policy and terms of service, but they were as long and as boring as one can expect. Anyway, as far as how this service works, don't they just redirect your email to the phone number at every known North American operator, hoping that one of them is actually a working address? So, if you send it to 1234567890@teleflip.com, then what they do is redirect it to 1234567890@tmomail.net (T-Mobile), 1234567890@vtext.com (Verizon), and all the others. Signature\/ L /\ D How much spam do I end up signing my phone up to by using this service? How they're making money isn't obvious from their web page and I know they're not doing this for free out of the goodness of they're heart. I'd feel better about trying it if they were upfront as to where the revenue stream is. > Okay, I finally finally finally, through searching and searching found a > legit website that will send an sms to any cell phone without knowledge of [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > -Brian in Kansas City The extra thing teleflip does is search a database that includes ported phone numbers. I sent my phone an SMS and got it instantly. No spam yet. > I started reading their privacy policy and terms of service, but they were > as long and as boring as one can expect. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > 1234567890@tmomail.net (T-Mobile), 1234567890@vtext.com (Verizon), and all > the others. >How much spam do I end up signing my phone up to by using this service? How >they're making money isn't obvious from their web page and I know they're >not doing this for free out of the goodness of they're heart. I'd feel >better about trying it if they were upfront as to where the revenue stream >is. Fercrissake if you distrust it don't use the damned service. How much simpler could it be. Jesus!! No one's putting a frikkin gun to your head to use the service. If you're paranoid of using the damned service don't use it. Simple, eh? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Fercrissake if you distrust it don't use the damned service. How much > simpler could it be. Jesus!! No one's putting a frikkin gun to your > head to use the service. If you're paranoid of using the damned > service don't use it. Simple, eh? Fercrissake if you don't like people discussing articles posted here, don't subscribe to the damned newsgroup. How much simpler could it be? And try decaf. What's your problem? I'd like to use it but I want to understand what the catch is before giving my number out. Until then I won't use it. Although someone else may have caught something I didn't and I'd like to hear what they have to say. If you don't have any input then don't bother to respond. Even simpler, eh? >>How much spam do I end up signing my phone up to by using this service? >>How [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - No, I did not write that. :) Signature\/ L /\ D On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:00:03 -0500, "Vlad Andreyev" <vlad@atlantech.net> wrote: >How much spam do I end up signing my phone up to by using this service? How >they're making money isn't obvious from their web page and I know they're >not doing this for free out of the goodness of they're heart. I'd feel >better about trying it if they were upfront as to where the revenue stream >is. Fercrissake if you distrust it don't use the damned service. How much simpler could it be. Jesus!! No one's putting a frikkin gun to your head to use the service. If you're paranoid of using the damned service don't use it. Simple, eh? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >How much spam do I end up signing my phone up to by using this service? How >they're making money isn't obvious from their web page and I know they're >not doing this for free out of the goodness of they're heart. I'd feel >better about trying it if they were upfront as to where the revenue stream >is. If you're that worried about it don't use the service!!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You make life sound so simple. It's not so much worrying about it is simply understanding it before using it then making an informed decision. One of the major ways spammers harvest email addresses is by putting up site that let you send "free" greeting cards to your friends. Then people can't figure out why they get spam (it's because their friends and family are signing them up for it). Thanks for you input though. >>How much spam do I end up signing my phone up to by using this service? >>How [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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