[A83] Re: [OT] What's a GMS?

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[A83] Re: [OT] What's a GMS?


Greetings!
Sounds like a great system. If I could ony afford it on my $5 dollars a week 
allowance... (more like $3 dollars American). My allowance suits me fine, I 
just don't buy anything (even though 14 is probably one of the peak spending 
times in one's life).

Jimmy Pardey

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>SMS stands for Simple Messaging Service.  Most newer cell phones now have
>this feature, at least in the US (from what I've seen).  I have service 
>from
>AT&T in Phoenix, AZ, and get (I think) unlimited SMS and email on my phone
>(I have their cheap Nokia model, some 5000 series, I do believe).  SMS lets
>you send a message to another cell phone from a cell phone, and receive
>messages sent from a web/email SMS gateway.  For example, sending an email
>to 6027589103@NOSPAM.mobile.att.net will send it to my phone.  It's limited
>to somewhere like 140-200 characters.  The phone can also be used to send
>email (although as you can imagine, typing on a phone keyboard rather 
>limits
>the usefulness, even with the built in dictionary).
>
>While not incredibly useful for communicating with people directly (easier
>just to call), there are a lot of uses for them.  The company I work for
>uses them to automatically page netops employee's phones when the machine
>watch program thinks a server is down.  When you have a website or other
>service that needs to be up 24/7, it's useful to setup a cron job that runs
>on another server, preferably at a different data center, that checks every
>minute and pages you if it appears to be down.
>
>I've thought of doing some other stuff, like having an AIM or ICQ bot check
>my account to see if I am idle for a certain period, then log me in and
>forward all messages to my phone (maybe with the option to reply from the
>phone).  There's probably stuff written already to do this, but I haven't
>ever looked.  It would be nice if a client could do this for you, to avoid
>having to log you out.
>
>I am guessing that Genie SMS is his cellular provider.  GSM stands for
>Global System for Mobile communications.  It's open and non-proprietary.  
>It
>is used in throughout Europe and many other countries.  Phones that use GSM
>can usually have "roaming" access in any area that provides GSM service
>(although most providers charge exorbitant roaming fees).  Unfortunately
>there is no standard like this in the US.  Roaming is generally not a
>problem (except for the fees), but if you change cellular providers, you
>almost always have to buy a new phone (which can be expensive).  Nokia and
>probably others have GSM equipped phones that work in the US and Europe, 
>but
>all the ones I've seen are much higher than the cheap models that most
>people get ($300+ compared to $50-$100).
>
> > What's a Genie SMS? is it some sort of email pager?
>
>
>
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