Hi,

I would like to promote an email address which people can text message
via their cellphone. I would then process these emails and send a
reply. The reply address would be the person's email equivalent of
their cellphone number (such as joe@vext.com). Then, the person would
be pinged via text message with my reply.  From what I have read it
seems that this is possible.

So the cellphone user who initiated the call would be charged twice -
once for the out going text message, and again for receiving the
reply. Is this now 15 cents each way? As for me, would I be charged
anything? Not sure how they would even know who to charge.

So this scenarios works in the United States for all the major
carriers-- what abou International? The international user would need
to send an actual email via their handheld device, then receive an
actual email?

I am new to the mobile world and would appreciate anybody offering
their insight on things I am not thinking of, like are their
restrictions by carriers on use of their "@vtext.com" email addresses.

-Joe