Does send a web text to phone using this link work for users?

http://www.rogers.com/english/.....ndpcs.html

wait... I think they have changed that... How about:

http://www.send-sms-now.com/

texttester3 said:

I just created an account at the rogers sms site ( http://websms.rogers.page.ca/2way/ ), and sent two sms msgs to my native speakout phone number. both arrived.
Reply did not work.

This is the only way I can send text messages to my SO phone from my computer. yournumber@pcs.rogers.com does not work and, as mentioned before in an previous post, sends you a text message asking that you send Yes as a reply which then fails.

Thanks for the link and tip, texttester3!!! 😎

jacks said:

For interest sake I emailed a test text message to myself. Since I just bought the credits to get a free phone a few days ago. I get a message from 3500001 about subscribing to email to sms service. I try to respond but says can't send the message. I was using the pcs.rogers.com (not that .ca would matter?) to send.

If you text "subscribe" to 0000000000 you will get a response from 3050000x that instructs you to reply with "read", but that won't work, of course. Sending "read" to 0000000000 produces an error.

Haven't sent any text messages via phone yet. Telus and mts seem to recieve the email to text w/o issues.

e-mailing @pcs.rogers.ca did not work either. But... given that the incoming messages are now free. I won't complain too much about needing to use the rogers site.:smile:

Surprisingly, still works! Your calendar will send you reminders of meetings or whatever.

pz

I suspect that for those whom the SMS gateway is working have a number that was associated with a Roger's account at some point.

sigh. this is really the only feature i want. i don't even need voice.

I sent an e-mail to (my.number)@pcs.rogers.com, and about 20 seconds later, a text message arrives at my phone. It's not the e-mail, but a message saying I have received an e-mail, which I can read by replying to that message with the text "read". I did that reply, and a few seconds later, I was reading the e-mail. What's more, I was not charged for any of this. I purposely checked my balance at the beginning of the test, and there were no deductions for any of the messages (maybe because my text messages were to and from an internal Speakout/Rogers number, rather than "the outside world"?). Psst... don't tell Speakout this was free --- they may not know about this loophole! 🙂

but if they were nice guys who cared about providing good features to customers, maybe they would properly configure and activate it so that Speakout phones could reliably send and receive emails.

Don't bet on it.

Excuse me, Mr. Rogers sir... I'd like to buy blocks of airtime from you at a discount, then use your towers, your network, and your software to let my cell service do the same as yours at a lower price, so I can steal all your customers. Would that be okay?

Well, after that first small success getting that intro message from the Rogers PCS system, now I am getting nothing. I could not 'subscribe', and now, nothing happens when I try to email to my phone.

I decided to go to the new official Speakout web site, and found an e-mail address for customer service. I sent them a question, explaining that I could send an e-mail through the Rogers port using the 0000000000 trick, but that I could not receive replies. I got an answer just a few hours later:

Walter this is something that we believe can be done utilizing Roger's phones with Roger's service but SpeakOut operates somewhat differently, so I have forwarded your inquiry to a technical advisor to see if it in fact it is possible with SpeakOut.

This morning, I received this response:

SpeakOut Canada does not support this feature. and your ability to be able to use it in a limited fashion is simply legacy software from our provider Roger's Wireless that will likely in the future be switched off. Therefore I cannot provide you any additional information on how to use these features.

So, maybe they will eventually switch off this "legacy software", but if they were nice guys who cared about providing good features to customers, maybe they would properly configure and activate it so that Speakout phones could reliably send and receive emails. We can only hope! 🙂

http://websms.rogers.page.ca/s.....s/english/

and it still didn't work for me. I wonder if it works for some numbers and not others?

Walter_Wpg and Glen Lalonde, were your phone numbers ported into SpeakOut? Or were they newly assigned numbers? My number was assigned to me by SpeakOut.

Once I did that, I got my original message.

This is great, I can now get my server to sms me when a message gets left on my answering machine software. Finally!