From: Ralph M. <ral...@gm...> - 2006-09-26 15:44:03
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On 9/26/06, Roussell, Terry <TRo...@dr...> wrote: > It is cool; Google is always up to something cool it seems, but... > > Is it really needed? Most if not all cell companies these days already > have an email->SMS gateway for use by their customers. As an example, if > I send an email to ACP...@mo... then I receive > the email as a text message on my phone under a minute (usually just a > few seconds). This is how my HA system has communicated with my phone > for years. Even before Cingular, when it was Bellsouth mobility, I used > AC...@sm... (which still works by the way). > > I don't mean to come across as negative, I guess I'm just wondering what > additional value this would add over just sending an email, which MH can > already easily do. Still, nice find though! Have you ever had any major delays in the email being delivered to your phone?? If not, that's great, but I've personally seen up to a 2 hour delay, and someone I used to work with had delays of up to 8 hours getting pages about broken systems. OK, so this was a couple of years ago, and things ought to be better now, but I'd still like to have the option of pushing a page in one hop out to someone with *really* wide bandwidth, rather than forwarding to my ISP and trusting them to move it in a timely manner. Ralph Mitchell |