Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Use Internet SMS to Send Text in a Pinch

By Nia Lawrence


On occasion, you'll have to deal with on-the-spot enquiries about your job or someone else's work. During these times, you or that person may not be available to take phone calls or communicate through the Internet. More unfortunate, your fellow employee's phone may not even be configured to connect to a 3G or 4G cellular network. To contact each other, you'll have to email SMS text using a personal computer or a laptop that's connected to mobile carrier networks through your email client on your desktop. The best part of all is that you or your pal won't have to pay additional charges to send a terse reply to the sender's inbox.

On the surface, communicating through email works differently from sending a text message through SMS. An Internet connection, whether through a cellular or Wi-Fi network, is required for an email to be transmitted. In contrast, a short message service needs at least a global system for mobile communication to send and receive data. Another major difference between the two is the message's length. A text message displays only about 140 to 160 characters, depending on the number of bytes per character. Nevertheless, you can connect your PC to the cellular network for a quick email to SMS phones using Outlook.

Alas, this very useful tool for SMS communications is hindered by the limits of short messages themselves. Only a single recipient may receive email to SMS texts. The message itself may be longer than usual, but it can only be sent individually to other people. The upside of this service is the privacy you'll have in sending a request or an urgent announcement. Not only that, you won't need new software or other applications. You only need a desktop client that can send email in either plain text or HTML form. You may also add a static or an animated image to your message.

Because of its simplicity, the web interface of Internet SMS is very easy for non-technical persons to understand and use. Apart from contacting a mobile phone number, you may also send the text message you've just composed to a landline number. Instead of reading lines of text, your recipient will hear a text-to-voice translation of your message. More importantly, all your messages are stored in a secure email server.

In general, these web-to-SMS solutions bring to your business several positive advantages. These benefits include improvements in communication and productivity, better customer service, increased attendance at work, and reduced payments for mobile data charges. Directly contacting staff through text messaging forces them to send an immediate reply about their current location or to confirm their participation in an upcoming meeting. Also, urgent requests for assistance from a customer are quickly channeled to the right person who can address the problem. Finally, Internet SMS rates could go down to half the average cost of a phone call.




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