The Unofficial Speak Out Wireless Canada Consumer Page - Topic: Email to SMS https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/technical-service-details/email-to-sms/ Simple:Press Version 5.7.5.3 dLux on Email to SMS https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/technical-service-details/email-to-sms/#p32320 Technical service details https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/technical-service-details/email-to-sms/#p32320 Ya, I just did this myself and came here to tell people that Rogers had switched on the email to sms option.

And then after reading your post, I find out that yes, I was charged 35 cent for each message from Rogers. Argh!

Anybody else come up with an email to txt solution that does not cost?

Thanks
Peace

]]> Tue, 22 Mar 2016 22:16:56 -0700 Renee on Email to SMS https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/technical-service-details/email-to-sms/#p32277 Technical service details https://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/technical-service-details/email-to-sms/#p32277 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.

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