Tired of paying outrageous rates for text messages? Think that $1,000+ a megabyte is just a tad excessive? [$0.10 for 1/10 Kb = $1000 for 1 Mb.] Here’s your answer, then:
smsBug provides for the worlds first secure SMS at a ridiculous price from your mobile phone.
smsBug is a free SMS Client application which is downloaded onto a Java-enabled mobile phone. In order to make use of this new and exciting application, your mobile phone must be GPRS-enabled and will make use of GPRS provided by your mobile operator.
smsBug leverages the power of the Internet to bring you an alternative route for sending SMS messages. You no longer need your mobile operator for the delivery of SMS messages. smsBug sends SMSs over GPRS through the Internet to the smsBug Portal, from where SMS messages can be sent to mobile networks worldwide.
Hat tip to Mobitopia for the pointer.
PS Has anyone else noticed that “disintermediation” has more syllables than “cut out the middleman”?
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gprs charges are better then sms but not much better unfortunately.
secondly, most plans comes with bundled block sms. and i never seem to hit that limit yet...
good try but not likely to be useful for now by pure economics.
Posted by: at July 24, 2004 09:35 PMUnless you're being charged 24p (approx. $0.45) to send an international SMS [http://www.onetel.co.uk/index.php/mobilerates -- at the bottom], or (zut alors!) you happen live in France [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/12/europe_in_brief/].
Posted by: at July 30, 2004 10:52 PMhello there
We are the creators of smsbug.com and can say we have had massive take-up of our product. We must also stress that in most countires you can make a saving of up to two-thirds and for International messaging the cost saving is massive! What makes our product even more appealing is that over time gprs rates will decrease and in some countries is free!
We look forward to you trying our product :)
Regards,
Posted by: at January 10, 2005 11:03 AMThere's a new mobile app and web service out called FishText - it's even cheaper, international texts start at 1p, and they've done some kind of compression to keep the GPRS data usage low. They've got a pretty cool free trial running atm: http://www.fishtext.com/
Posted by: at July 17, 2008 12:08 AM