SMS Enabled Service

[VOIPoTim]

IF we were to start offering the ability to receive SMS messages on your VOIPo number, is this something of interest to you?

If so, how would you see using it? Having them show up in control panel? Redirect to e-mail?

Basically would you use SMS and what ideas do you have for how we might incorporate it into our service if we offered it?

[Brian]

That would be awesome! Email/CP would be good, some type of app (desktop, Android, etc.) would be great too.

[TomP]

Might be of interest if I could use it to eliminate the text plan for my iPhone. Google Voice pretty much does that already, but it requires me to hand out an extra number (GV) instead of just using the mobile or home (VOIPo) numbers that friends/family already know. If an app exists that could tie into VOIPo for sending & receiving msgs, that might do it.

The ability to send & receive msgs via vPanel would also be useful, for times when I'm in front of the computer. Optional forwarding to email would be a bonus.

[Russell]

IF we were to start offering the ability to receive SMS messages on your VOIPo number, is this something of interest to you?

If so, how would you see using it? Having them show up in control panel? Redirect to e-mail?

Basically would you use SMS and what ideas do you have for how we might incorporate it into our service if we offered it?

To put it bluntly, if free and meeting certain criteria I'd very definitely use it. I like the Google Voice model - we specify an address and it arrives as email at that address. If you reply from that address it's like the SMS came from the number it was sent to. Ideally, if that address forwarded to multiple addresses replying would still work, but that would be icing on the cake.

If not free, I wouldn't use it :-(.

[pflueger41]

Yes... would love to have this feature.

[dlangley]

Another option is to also offer jabber support. this would allow people to pick up their messages from any jabber client via mobile phone, or at home.

[Mike_TV]

I had this with a previous VOIP provider and it was as nice feature. I would get an SMS whenever someone would call and leave a VM.

It would be nice to get an SMS whenever someone called and/or left a VM. Very handy when you are away from home and can call someone back quickly from your mobile phone.

[Russell]

I had this with a previous VOIP provider and it was as nice feature. I would get an SMS whenever someone would call and leave a VM.

It would be nice to get an SMS whenever someone called and/or left a VM. Very handy when you are away from home and can call someone back quickly from your mobile phone.

This feature has been there for a long time. This is NOT what Tim is asking about.

[caseydoug]

Sending to email would be good. Also, forwarding to a different (cell phone) SMS, although that could probably also be done through my cell carrier's email to SMS gateway.

[woodcycl]

Yes, quite interested. And, forwarding to email would be nice.