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Join Date: May 2001
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Where have all the FREE sms websites gone?
I think this is the right forum for this, since it's communications!!!
--------------------------------------------------- They just seam to have all disappeared: freesms.net, studentuk, textmessenger.co.uk, is there a new law against this or something? |
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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I think that there is a couple of free sms sites around, but can't remember the name of them
There is no law against them, it just costs the company too much money to carry on doing these things for free
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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You could also try www.mtnsms.com This site is a little tacky but offers international texting and message delivery/status reports.
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Oh and if you have AOL got to Keyword: SMS
or Keyword: Texting. Send as many as you want and its much quicker than going through any website
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Good topic was about too post one myself.
ICQ SMS service died about a week ago and ever since then ive been looking for ANY PC too mobile free text service. 9 times out of 10 I find a service that requires registration or a valid mobile number which I dont have at moment ! ICQ service is not going back up anytime soon, apparantly there having resource problems. |
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hmm well tried all of them and most were down, or had server error please try later messages.
And theres no way too find out what there texting back too u. Tried AOL inbuilt SMS and that was the best and quickest... but theres no way again too see what they text u. ICQ SMS is still No1 service out there, shame its down. |
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Also, don't forget Uboot if you fancy sending the odd anonymous text, though don't make the same mistake as I did and make your username so bloody obvious that anyone you send a text to knows who you are!!
![]() sorry, just noticed this one is in already!! Having timeout problems and I haven't got a clue which messages i'm sending are going on or not!!!
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www.mtnsms.com as mentioned above can send AND receive sms's
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www.excite.co.uk You have to register and get 3 (!) free messages a day. The service is reliable though.
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Does anybody actually know the problem with ICQ SMS? I used it a lot and it's not working with any network at the moment...
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Like I said before ICQ SMS text servers dead, it was working a few days ago but now all I get is
Message had gone thru xxxxxxx network then 2 seconds later its receiptant didnt receive message! ICQ SMS tech emailed me and said there having high resource usage at moment and are currently doing everything they can too expand there SMS service. IE- everyone caught onto the Free ICQ sms service and overused the service grinding it down too a halt... and they have no idea when its too go back up. will try this one: http://www.mtnsms.com/ although AOL SMS messagers very cool, in fact my mates send me a message and some how it ends up coming thru ICQ !!! but as an unknown person so thats freaky... |
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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I use orange.net for mine. Only prob is 30 a month I only send about 12 a month so there is no problem for me. They arrive within seconds.
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There is also http://www.vizzavi.co.uk which allows you to send 10 a day for free
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My favourte is mtnsms but they have started restricting you to sending only 5 messages per day. I also like Uboot but I cant receive replies on it
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Uboot do let u reply to SMS messages now and is the best site I have found.It is reliable 90% of the time. A top tip is to send yourself a test message putting the time on the end.They usually come thru in 10secs.
Have tried mtnsms but this does not work when I test it (on the homepage) on either Voda or BTCellnet.Am I doin something wrong?? |
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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ICQ SMS
ICQ's SMS is working fine for me. Although I'm using ICQ itself rather than the webpage.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: London
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Yes ICQ SMS is back up !!
And in good time for once I just got NTLworld sorted ![]() And its Friday and time too download Medal of honour demo! |
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Nottingham
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Any international ones? Other than the iratic mtnsms?
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