Rogers's new SMS policies

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This hasnt affected Rogers customers. I just sent myself an email to my
phone and I received the email normally.

What is different is that it used to indicate the email address of the
sender, now it just indicates the numeric "from" just like you are
sending an SMS from the web.

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> wrote in message
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: In another newsgroup, I've heard that the email to SMS gateway for
Rogers now,
: instead of sending the email to the handset, sends a notification and
the user
: then must respond to the SMS in order to get the actual SMS.
(something about
: accepting charges for the SMS).
:
: Ths would be truly annoying if it were to happen to Fido. (and will
eventually
: happen once we're folded into Rogers).
:
: Interestingly, people are now going around this by embedding the
message in
: the from: email address thus not requiring the handset user to respond
to the
: SMS to get the email since the confirmation SMS includes the "from"
address.
:
: (eg: you have an SMS from <user@domain.tld>, reply with "R" to get the
message).
:
: Just set "user" to contain the whole message...

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Pavel <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> This hasnt affected Rogers customers. I just sent myself an email to my
> phone and I received the email normally.

Just wondering, how do I send email to my Fido phone? Is the email address
<my_phone_number>@fido.ca or something like that?

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"Pavel" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in news utyd.569001$%k.372921@pd7tw2no:

> This hasnt affected Rogers customers. I just sent myself an email to my
> phone and I received the email normally.
>
> What is different is that it used to indicate the email address of the
> sender, now it just indicates the numeric "from" just like you are
> sending an SMS from the web.

congrats on being one of the very few. are you on a corporate plan?

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=...


it's affected just about everybody except for some corporate accounts, who
rightly bitched loudly enough and have the money to sway it.

basically, you now have to pay 5cents to read an email-->sms message. visit
the link above.

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"Good Man" <heyho@letsgo.com> wrote in message
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: :
: congrats on being one of the very few. are you on a corporate plan?
:
: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=...
:
:
: it's affected just about everybody except for some corporate
accounts, who
: rightly bitched loudly enough and have the money to sway it.
:
: basically, you now have to pay 5cents to read an email-->sms
message. visit
: the link above.

Oh, no. Don't tell me that I have fallen into the "minority" category
again?!
Actually, I am on a corporate plan until then end of this month and
then in January I switch to a regular plan. I guess I will see then.

As per August 18th, 2009 Fido customers are suffering the same ordeal.
Now Fido uses the same email to SMS fashion as Rigers: either you reply 'Yes' to be able to read every single email sent to your phone, or you pay $5.00 per month to receive those emails without having to reply 'Yes' (the way it has always been).
This is unacceptable!
Please complain to Fido and let's hope they revert this service to the way it was before!!!!
I called them with my complains and I got this extra $5.00 service free for the next 2 years, but so far their system has a problem and the service doesn't work. I'm not happy at all.

Fabian