Mobe-mail
The Mobe-mail site has free Web-based SMS and e-mail to SMS. There are further premium services available for a fee.
Mobe-mail allows members to resend the subject line of a Mobe-mail e-mail as a short message directly to any suitably enabled mobile phone in Australia. Messages can be sent to phones regardless of the carrier used by the recipient, and can be up to 80 characters in length.
If the person that you are sending the message to is not a Mobe-mail member they will automatically have an account opened for their phone number. They will then be able to access our site using their mobile phone number and a password, which will be sent to them via SMS.
Mobe-mail is planning to introduce a wide range of information services via SMS, with members able to request a variety of information, from sporting results to finance information.
Some of the messages seemed to take quite some time to be delivered (up to 22 minutes), and after the third message we received a message that said "you have reached you mobe-mail.com.au SMS notification limit--please check the mobe-mail.com.au Web site for additional messages", which means you can really only be notified of something four times a day.
The premium service currently offered gives you the option to receive SMS notifications on all e-mails you receive each day; these cost 20 cents each, with a minimum spend per month of AU$5, which includes the first 25 messages.
One great feature of these messages was that they included more than just the subject of the e-mail. In fact, the SMS contained a "full-page" ad, then the sender, then the subject, and then as much of the message as it could fit into the SMS limitations.
Overall, this is an excellent service for Web-based SMS and low-volume e-mail to SMS.
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