Push to unknown phones = SMS You should be able to negotiate a better deal than 10p/txt if you can indicate volume
If you can narrow the type of phones down a bit , then you may have more options I would see the problem being the push feature you want , rather than email access. The only push email is the blackberry (that I know of) until end of this year when phone makers will support the push technology of exchange 2003 SP2. I suspect you want to have zero support calls for this, so I would suspect SMS is the only way to go. Cheers Dean -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Helen Best Sent: Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:34 a.m. To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Email to Mobiles Thanks Simon We want a facility to push out reminders to our Students - So the version of their phones will be unknown Helen Best IT Services -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Butler Sent: 28 February 2006 11:32 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Email to Mobiles Helen, You will probably get messages from the US members of this list who will fail to notice that you are in the UK. They will tell you that you can simply forward your email to <phone number>@ mobilephoneco.net and it doesn't cost a cent. Unfortunately that only applies to the US, everywhere else has to pay. As such, automatic email to any mobile phone in the UK and the word "cheap" cannot be used in the same sentence. You basically only have one option and that is to use an email to SMS gateway and that will cost you 10p for every email message. It does let you support any phone, but is very expensive to run. If you have fairly modern mobile phones you could see if they have an email client built in. Many of the more modern phones have this. You also have OMA which works with most mobiles released in the UK in the last couple of years. Then you have smart phones - Blackberry or Windows Mobile Devices. Blackberry can give you push technology now, Windows Mobile 5.0 will eventually (any day between now and the end of the century). Simon. -- Simon Butler MCP, MCSA, MVP:Exchange Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset-it.com w: www.amset.info -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Helen Best Sent: 28 February 2006 11:04 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Email to Mobiles Morning to you all Does anyone use a service/server for sending emails to Mobile Phones? If so which one do you use and would you recommend it? 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