GMail to Mobile won't work

[Thomas Milne]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:15 AM, CLIFFORD ILKAY
<clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 05:25 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
>>
>> Yahoo charges a fee to forward to SMS (???), and Hotmail for some
>> reason supports every provider except Virgin. God forbid they just
>> let you forward to the SMS email gateway manually, but you know
>> Microsoft. So far I have not been able to find anyone who will
>> forward to SMS without some kind of insane hassle.
>>
>> Facebook will begin it's e-mail messaging system soon, and they
>> easily forward to SMS. I'll just use that. I'm certainly not going to
>> pay 10 or 15 dollars a month for a data plan just so I can get a few
>> e-mails.
>
> FYI: WIND Mobile doesn't have an email to SMS gateway, apparently. I don't
> care about that but judging by the complaints on their forums, many people
> do.

If I believed in conspiracies, I would be suspicious that these
companies were trying to encourage people to move away from using SMS
to using the web and data plans that are 5 times as expensive ;)

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