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160861 2003-07-18 11:07:00 How do I send (free?) short text messages to a mobile phone from my computer?

Cheers
bk T (215)
160862 2003-07-18 11:10:00 You can only text to 021 and if you have ICQ you can do it from there, or go to http://www.vodafone.co.nz and go to web text, and you can send 5 free ones from there daily. :) supergran (108)
160863 2003-07-18 11:10:00 Vodafone have a bit on their website where you can sign-in and send web2sms messages and they appear to come from your phone - ie: your mobile number is displayed as the sender. However this is limited to 10 free messages per day.
ICQ also has this ability - send 10 free SMS Messages per day, and you even get your own ICQ number which you can send messages to on your phone and they pop up in ICQ.


CyberChuck
cyberchuck (173)
160864 2003-07-18 11:25:00 more tha that from ICQ..
i have sent 24 tonight so far...
and havent changed accoutns.. i set up heappppppppps coz it used to be 10 a day but now nope...
maybe its coz i'm lucky or servers are losing count. i dunno
csinclair83 (200)
160865 2003-07-18 12:10:00 Thanks guys.

I've registered with vodafone, and sent 2 messages successfully.

Good stuff.


Cheers
bk T (215)
160866 2003-07-18 12:35:00 I thought ICQ did 15 a day?? Chilling_Silently (228)
160867 2003-07-18 19:41:00 I think ICQ varies . . . just as chris said, he's sent 24 messages so far - sometimes i've been able to send more than 15 (or whatever the limit is), and sometimes i've only been able to send less than that .

Just out of curiosity - how does ICQ know when we have reached the limit for the 'day'? Does ICQ use our computer's clock? or their server's clock?

Like, if I was limited to 15 messages in one 'day', and used all that up before 12am, could i carry on sending messages after 12am? because according to OUR (nz) time, a new 'day' starts after 12am . . .
caffy (2665)
160868 2003-07-18 22:45:00 > Just out of curiosity - how does ICQ know when we have reached the limit for the
> 'day'? Does ICQ use our computer's clock? or their server's clock?
>
> Like, if I was limited to 15 messages in one 'day', and used all that up before 12am,
> could i carry on sending messages after 12am? because according to OUR (nz)
> time, a new 'day' starts after 12am.

I would assume that it uses the servers clock because otherwise I could just speed up time on my computer and have access to several more free SMS Messages
cyberchuck (173)
160869 2003-07-18 23:05:00 or they give u a 12 hour day from the first txt u send..from the first time u sign on...and every time u sign on in a 12 hour period doesnt count..and after 12 hours it restarts the clock? i dunno csinclair83 (200)
160870 2003-07-19 03:52:00 go through icq vodaphone charge through their website phylip (1886)
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