Test Message From Phone

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Does anyone know if it is possible to send a numeric message to a Verizon
phone.

You may be asking yourself why one would want to do this???

Well, I am trying to save some money in my fire department. All captains
and above have pagers, and some lower ranks. Some officers have a cell
phone and a pager. We all know that you can send a text message to a cell
phone from another cell phone and via e-mail. But, someone that only has a
land line and does not have broadband Internet has no way of sending a text
message to a cell phone. Now, you might say, why not just call the person?
Yea, that is true, but some people might just want to alert the person to
call them - just like calling a pager.

Sprint has a feature where the caller can dial 11 and then the number and be
put directly to voice mail.

Tks

Brian


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Archived from groups: alt.cellular.verizon (More info?)

Why don't you use Police codes with phone # ie: 555-1212-1099 = Officer down
or 555-1212-1144 = Call Coroner. I am sure you guys can figure out something
that would work for you.

"SkyPilot" <skypilotnospam@writeme.com> wrote in message
news:idsnp0h2eb4ar5lumd1pknebatd5r5ppu1@4ax.com...
> Does anyone know if it is possible to send a numeric message to a Verizon
> phone.
>
> You may be asking yourself why one would want to do this???
>
> Well, I am trying to save some money in my fire department. All captains
> and above have pagers, and some lower ranks. Some officers have a cell
> phone and a pager. We all know that you can send a text message to a cell
> phone from another cell phone and via e-mail. But, someone that only has
> a
> land line and does not have broadband Internet has no way of sending a
> text
> message to a cell phone. Now, you might say, why not just call the
> person?
> Yea, that is true, but some people might just want to alert the person to
> call them - just like calling a pager.
>
> Sprint has a feature where the caller can dial 11 and then the number and
> be
> put directly to voice mail.
>
> Tks
>
> Brian
>
>
> --
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> Brian J. Rueger | Hampton Div. of Fire & Rescue | "Who dares
> wins"
> Lt./Paramedic | Fire Communications Officer | Hampton, VA.
> B.S. Comm/I/SEL Pilot | MSgt, USAF (Ret.) 49199 | NREMT-P
> Check out my home page: http://members.cox.net/brueger
> Some of my photography: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/34185.html
> "Life's too short to drink LITE beer!"
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------