Text Messaging to Pagers Basics

Get the word out now to friends and colleagues with text messaging pagers

Text messaging is the most widely used mobile data service, with 35% of all cell phone users worldwide and well over five million Short Message Service (SMS) users. Most digital cell phones and some personal digital assistants and pagers with on-board wireless telecommunications have texting capability. Texting service providers use an SMS gateway to allow texting by emailing to a standard email address. There is also software available that acts as a pager messaging gateway between a company's intranet and the Internet.

It's interesting to note that Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and Queensland University in Australia did studies concluding that the addictiveness of texting was on the order of that of cigarette smoking. If you're considering a pager texting service for your business, use the following as a guide:

1. Install computer software designed to do cell phone text messaging or text messaging to pagers.

2. Subscribe to a text message service.

3. Utilize an online messaging website designed for text messaging pagers.

 

Get PC software that sends text messages to pagers

If you are at a computer and need to send a message to text pagers, it is more convenient and cheaper to send it from software installed on the computer than from a cell phone. Also, a software solution is essential if you need to send text messages to many pagers.
Try: NotePage has a series of programs for sending text to pagers that have group messaging capabilities, handle a variety of messaging protocols and have a number of powerful features. Their website gives an informative introduction to the software and what it's capable of. Systemetrics has a software system called PageMate Classic that enables a computer to send text messages to pagers. Their website provides an overview of the features and benefits of the software and explains how it works.

Sign up for service to begin beeper text messaging or SMS mobile text messaging

There are pager services available that enable text messages to be received from phone sources or from email sources. Client email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail can be used for conveniently preparing and sending text messages to pagers. Select regular text and not HTML. The email address to send to is usually the pager phone number followed by the paging company's address.
Try: MySecretary offers an alphanumeric texting service, starting at $10 per month, that provides you with an alphanumeric pager and allows you to send and receive text messages via email or locally via phone service, together with free news, weather and sports updates. UCOM provides wireless text messaging service to pagers. Text messages can originate by self-dispatch, from paging software, websites, email or personal 800 services. C3 Interactive describes the differences between short coded messaging and text messaging gateways and how they each work.

Text your recipient through an online messaging website

One of the easiest ways to send text message data to pagers anywhere in the world is to use an online website that enables you to type your message, making changes to it as you go, and then send it by clicking "Ok."
Try: All Page provides a web page from which you can just enter the phone number of the pager, type your message into a box and hit send. It costs you nothing and only your recipient pays to receive your text message. TextYourBuddy has a free SMS website from which you can send a text to a cell phone from any of more than 100 different providers. The providers are mostly in the United States, but many are in eastern Europe.

 

• A complete explanation of text messaging to pagers basics should mention that you can archive your text messages online for safekeeping. This is great protection in case you lose your data.

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