2009/10/2 Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]>: > > Colin Law wrote: >> 2009/10/2 Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]>: >>>>> gateways. Why not check? >>>>> >>>> >>>> They do not in the UK (I believe), not free anyway. >>> >>> About 5 minutes of research turned up http://bit.ly/H8lcV , which >>> includes a number of UK carriers. So I think you're wrong. :) >> >> I'll see your 5 minutes and raise it another 10. >> That information includes paid for services. The Vodaphone service >> for example is, I believe, not free > > How does that work? You send e-mail to the appropriate address at > vodafone.co.uk -- then what? Does Vodafone reply with a request for your > credit card number?
No it is the recipient that pays, he/she has to register with vodaphone to be able to receive sms from email and then he gets charged for receipt. > >> and anyway is not available to new >> customers as it is being phased out. > > That would suck. It would also surprise me. > >> I have not fully explored all the suggestions for the uk but so far >> none of them have panned out. The problem is that they want to make >> money. Most unreasonable in my opinion. > > Well, at least on the US model, they still do make money because the > recipient still pays for receipt. Do you get charged for receiving SMS normally then? We only get charged for sending unless subscribed to some chargeable system. Colin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
