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Skype to offer free texts By Ben Charny, CNET News.com February 28, 2005 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Skype-to-offer-free-texts/0,130061733,139182690,00.htm
Users of the VoIP service can now send and receive SMS messages, for free, using the software. A free feature that lets users send short text messages to mobile phones from Internet phone service Skype was being made available for testing starting on Thursday. Prior to Thursday, people downloading the Skype software could only receive texts. Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services such as Skype are based on the same technological underpinnings as instant messages, which appear on PC desktops. Net phone operators are using text messaging to create a bridge between mobile phones and PC desktops. By closing the message loop, Skype has outdone Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft, which make the most popular instant-message software. AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger only allow the sending of SMS, according to Marcus Williamson, managing director of Connectotel, which is providing Skype with the SMS service.
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