sms via icq to cellcom

[Noam Meltzer]

afaik, you can't send sms to cellcom from gmail, either.

2009/12/31 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>

> Hi,
> If you're using gmail, you can send SMS through there.
> Go to the "labs" tab in your settings, and enable "Text Messaging (SMS) in
> Chat" and "SMS in chat gadget".
> Save it, and in your contacts you can add the people's phone number and
> send an SMS to them (up to 50 chars). If they reply to you, you'll be
> credited with 5 SMS credits (you can go up to 50).
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
>
> 2009/12/31 sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com>
>
> Thanks. I use vicq from command line all the time. But, it wont send to
>> cellcom users.
>>
>> Are there any other creative solutions?
>>
>> Someone told me now that since icq is part of aol, and aol has financial
>> problems and probably will be closed, this might be a reason. to close the
>> service.
>>
>> Is it possible to send sms via gmail to cellcom, other services?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Guy Sheffer <guysoft42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Cellcom must have terminated their agreement with ICQ.
>>> ICQ sends SMSs only to carriers that have a contract with them.
>>>
>>> Cellcom used to have one. I guess they decided its not worth it.
>>>
>>> BTW, you might like to have a look at a program I wrote for this:
>>> http://smser.sourceforge.net/
>>> It uses centerIM to let you send SMS via ICQ on the commandline.
>>>
>>> Guy
>>> On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 15:26 +0200, sara fink wrote:
>>> > I created a new account and tried to send again to cellcom numbers
>>> > (from windows) and it failed with the same error. Can someone confirm
>>> > it happens the same in linux?
>>> >
>>> > Can someone call cellcom and ask what happened?
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:59 PM, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >         I tried today to send sms to cellcom via icq (done in this
>>> >         case from a windows machine) and it said
>>> >         SMS in Israel can only be sent to Orange and Pelephone.For
>>> >         more details see http://www.icq.com/sms
>>> >
>>> >         It worked until yesterday just fine.
>>> >
>>> >         I haven't tried with linux yet, because I am not near the
>>> >         computer with the vicq script.
>>> >
>>> >         Can anyone confirm if the problem persists in linux and/or
>>> >         windows?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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