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I just set up my Hotmail account to forward email to xxxxxxxxxx@pcs.rogers.com
It gave me the expected "You are not subscribed to Rogers email service, reply 'Yes' to subscribe". I did that, and I got the second one saying I had mail (from a test email) and reply 'Read' to read it. Surprisingly, all of this actually worked properly. I was able to read the email. The only bad thing is that it charged me 35 cents both times! That's more than even text-to-landline. I don't know if Rogers charges this to their own customers or if Speakout added it. I was reading old threads that said sending texts to Rogers numbers was free. Sure wish that was still true.

Anyway, so everything works fine (for me, at least), but I think getting data would be cheaper... (if you have a smartphone). Won't be making a habit of this. I'll just be busy this week so I need to be texted when I'm not at home about the status of my smartphone order from Best Buy. After that, I'm going to do the $35 100 mins + 500mb monthly plan.