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Text Messaging For Free
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Posted by: fuzion2k4

Hello all, I was wondering if anyone knew the way to send text messages from a mobile phone to another mobile phone... someone showed me once but that was before i had a cell phone and i didn't get the details... i believe it was with SMS but i've done a bit of searching and can't find anything related to what i'm looking for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Posted by: fuzion2k4

Hmm, sorry... i found out how!

Posted by: clarkie_69rz

do ya mind sharing?
thanks.

Posted by: fuzion2k4

Sure!

On my phone, the Motorola V400, there is Message Setup, where you can set your "Service Center Number"

Change it to one from this website:

http://fp.marknatalie.f9.co.uk/ff/free_sms_numbers.htm

And you're good to go!

The only thing i'm not sure about is if receiving is free. It would make sense since the service center works both ways (i think)

Posted by: Andytel

Basing on my roaming experience:
On many networks you're billed for SMS transmission regardless if you use their own SMSC or some foreign one.
Every time I sent SMS to one of these free foreign SMS centers, it worked fine, but I was anyway billed the normal tariff by my home operator.
I'm quite sure the foreign network will reject you if you try to use their SMSC if they don't allow to (99%), or bill you via roaming agreements for using their SMSC (except free gateways like the ICQ SMSC or a few others, like the old Nokia SMSC for ringtones, now disabled).
So, in case you successfully manage to transmit the SMS from your home network to a foreign (non-free) one, I suppose you could be billed the home SMS tariff AND the foreign SMS tariff.
It would be interesting to learn if somebody had ever been effectively billed this way.