Anyone know of a free way to send a text from e-mail?

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on March 24, 2011 at 5:25pm

By "premium" they mean as a special service to their own customers and their customers ONLY.

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on March 24, 2011 at 5:36pm

Everything I say is a joke you don't understand ;)

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on March 25, 2011 at 2:44pm

I got in touch with Verizon last night to get some clarification on what Premium Messaging means.  Took a while to get a clear answer as the quality of support has drastically dropped in the wake of the iPhone quasi-expansion, and the description on their website leaves me with more questions than answers-- but it seems I misunderstood what they mean by it-- it doesn't refer to the content of the message (e.g. media, animated GIFs, etc,) but rather specifically to these 5-digit numbers which apparently are the text-equivalent to 900 numbers. I'd want to block them to keep a kid from incurring charges when they saw something on a reality show or infomercial, for example.  So I unblocked . . . .

Thanks for all the great advice-- issue closed.

Steven Vance said:

I've not heard of a free service that can send text messages to shortcodes. Most free SMS services online require that you know the cellphone provider of the recipient, or they have a background service that can determine the provider based on the cellphone number.

Shortcodes operate very differently. Anyone can buy one and there are different providers of shortcodes. Each shortcode provider must have its own agreement and relationship with each of the cellphone network providers. 

By "premium messaging," do you mean that they try to send you an MMS (allows pictures, video, and audio attachments) and your phone/account is set up to block these? Most cellphone providers now charge the same amount for an MMS as an SMS (text only message) - you should look into this. 

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