sms via icq with the new mobile companies

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

> Yes, they have an agreement. See
> http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3828098,00.html

1. That article is 2 and 1/2 years old. A lot may have changed since then.

2. Rami Levi just renegotiated their contract with Pelephone, it was 
about to expire in late June or early July and they were trying to make 
a deal with Orange. They ended up staying with Pelephone.

3. Until we signed up for an "unlimited" plan with Orange, we were 
paying 50ag for incoming messages. Since we rarely text it was not an 
issue (it did not add significantly to our bill) until my son ran up a 
500 NIS phone bill calling his girlfriend and was told to cut it out.

He found a Hebrew site that sends free SMSs and ran up another 400 NIS 
in SMS charges before we got the next bill.

So not only check your bill carefully, but before you start sending lots 
of free SMSs, make sure it does not cost you to receive them.

Not that it matters much, but I believe if you have a Huawei USB modem 
on your asterisk system, you can send an SMS with it. I use it to make 
calls but have never gone to the effort of figuring out how to send an SMS.


If I remember correctly there is a similar channel driver for some 
models of Nokia phones, connected via USB or Bluetooth.

Geoff.



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Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379