[BC] (OT) Cell phone Text messaging

[mark@shander.com]

Most cell phones have a one-key "polite" mode that silences or places a
phone on vibrate, which is the same setting many pagers are on.

If you have a cell phone, text messaging as an added feature at $2.99
per 100 messages sent/received, even ala carte at .10 per message, is
cheaper than also carrying a pager and paying for that service, unless
you are paged more than a couple of hundred times per month or more.

Text messages can optionally be delivered to email accounts and can be
optionally received from email accounts.  Their delivery can be tracked
at Web Sites for free (see www.vtext.com for example).  They can notify
you of traffic accidents on your regular route to work that could delay
you from arriving to begin projects.  It's cheaper, works alike, and
has more benefits than paging.

If you didn't carry a phone, I'd agree completely.  Pagers are cheaper
than phone service.  

If you have phone service, and if you get only a moderate number of
pages per month, text messages are a cheaper solution than paying even
as low as $5 per month for a pager.

--- Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com> wrote:

> I resisted giving my cell phone # out for as long as I could possibly
> 
> delay.  The reason, I have a pager. If you need to find me...use it. 
> There 
> are MANY times where a cell phone ringing is the last thing you want
> at 
> that moment.
> 
> Text messaging, that's what a two-way pager is for...and is a WHOLE
> lot 
> cheaper...
> 
> MM
> 
> At 08:39 AM 1/27/2006 -0500, Cowboy wrote
> >On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:21 pm, Sherrod Munday wrote:
> >
> > >Cingular customers can't get a new plan with free incoming
> messages (IIRC
> > >they're $0.10/message or something like that) unless they're
> legacy AT&T
> > >customers that have just upgraded phones/plans.
> >
> >  And I know that personally, I have no use for text messaging on a
> phone.
> >  That's why I have e-mail !!
> >
> >  Doesn't somebody have a phone that is a phone, and not an
> "entertainment
> >  center" ??
> >
> >--
> >Cowboy
> >
> >http://cowboys.homeip.net
> >
> >How come wrong numbers are never busy?
> >
> >
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