From PRAR
I read your report on Mobe.Net, about a British network allowing customers to
use their mobile phone number as an e-mail address
(5 February, p 17). The
e-mail/short messaging service (SMS) gateway you describe is not new. Locust
(www.locust.net) has been running such a service for about three years now.
Cellnet has its Genie (www.genie.co.uk) service, which is free to all (if a
little slow), and even One2One has a service.
Many foreign networks have similar services. Locust will send multiple SMSs
for one e-mail and so get around the 160-character limit.
Our thanks to the many readers who have pointed out that other providers
offer this service—Ed
prar@publiconline.co.uk
