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The speed, convenience and cost effectiveness of SMS is unrivalled by any other communication medium. Faster than email, less intrusive and cheaper than phone calls, SMS has become the essential business tool. WWW.TXTONLINE.COM brings this power to your PC.

Send instant SMS online towards any mobile phone networks, national or international, in a few clicks, with the comfort of your keyboard. Manage your SMS address book, create groups of friends or colleagues, and easily send the same message to many correspondents at once (Batch SMS). Your friends and families can reply directly to your message from their mobile phones. The SMS reply will be received on your nominated mobile phone number.

Two way SMS enables you to receive SMS messages even without a mobile number or handset. You can choose to have the SMS reply to go into your online SMS inbox instead of your mobile handset. This way you can check your SMS message anywhere in the world as long as you can access the Internet. It's a great way to keep in touch with friends and families in Australia when you travel overseas.

Email to SMS gateway gives you the power to send SMS from your email program such as Microsoft Outlook or any other mail accounts such as Hotmail, Yahoo or Goolge mail. All you need to do is compose an Email message and send it to <mobile number>@txtonline.com (e.g. 1234567890@txtonline.com).

Send fax from your PC without any physical fax line or hardware! You can simply upload a Word, PDF document or an image file such as JPG, GIF, TIF file and we can fax it off for you in seconds. There is no special software required, no phone line rental and no toner to manage. All you need to do is use a web browser, log into the member area and upload your file for faxing. This help save the environment and cut down cost(not trees).

Our SMS system covers over 550 networks in 170 countries. Message delivery includes load balancing and intelligent routing. Trust the SMS specialists to build your stand alone or fully integrated SMS solution. See our global SMS online coverage here. We know action speaks louder than words, simply try us free and you know we deliver what we promise.
We are the most competitive and cost-efficient SMS and FAX provider on the Australian market today !

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Business use

  • Send instant SMS appoitment reminders, meeting reminders to your clients or staff. Your business is more accessible to your customers and more efficient to run.
  • Batch SMS is great for emergency purposes or rescue operations when you need to send a single SMS message quickly to a group of people.
  • Send key business messages in seconds from the Internet, computers and business systems at a fraction of the time and cost of a voice call. And the high reach and low cost of text online makes it perfect for time-sensitive messages.
  • With the average mobile call around $1.50 and an SMS about 20c, the savings are considerable. Plus not having to call staff or customer individually saves valuable time.

Personal use

  • It's a safe, easy, cost-effective way to stay in contact with your friends and families.
  • You can send a SMS to most mobile phones around the world. You don't even need a mobile phone.
  • Send one message to all your friends at the same time. (e.g. weekend party, drinks.)
  • Receive SMS reply directly on your mobile phone (ability to set originating number in SMS header).

System Integration

  • We can integrate the instant SMS system with your exisiting business. Please feel free to contact us to discuss a customised solution for your business.
  • Whether it is to monitor your network, status of your mail server or integrate into your own website, we have a solution for you.
More SMS information: SMS stands for short messaging service. It's a way to send text over wireless phone systems. The text appears on your handheld's screen, or in the case of a cellular phone, on the phone's display. SMS messages are text messages of up to 160 characters.

No phone call is required to send or receive a text message. In fact, it is possible to send and receive messages on Handspring phones while on a voice call. SMS has been around since 1991, has gained huge usage in Europe and Asia, but has come into widespread use in North America recently. SMS is a universal text messaging system but has come to be associated with its prime adopter, the GSM/GPRS wireless networks.

How SMS works

SMS works on a store-and-forward basis. Instead of being sent directly to the recipient, SMS messages travel through several important nodes before reaching the recipient (skip this part if you find it boring; there's more good stuff below).

  1. The SMS message is submitted to your wireless service provider's SMS Center.
  2. After the message is processed internally, the SMS Center sends a request to the Home Location Register (HLR) and receives the routing information for the recipient.
  3. The SMS Center sends the message to the Mobile Switching Center (MSC).
  4. The MSC collects the recipient's information from the Visitor Location Register (VLR) and, sometimes, proceeds with an authentication operation.
  5. The MSC forwards the message to a Mobile Server.
  6. If the recipient has a Treo or VisorPhone, the SMS is placed on the SIM card until the handheld picks up the message and transfers it to the internal memory on the unit. This is how Treos and VisorPhones can store hundreds of SMS messages, unlike ordinary GSM mobile phones that store only a few SMS messages. Treo or VisorPhone owners may encounter the error message "Your SIM contains at least one SMS message. Do you want to move the message to your Visor?" See the related SMS article in our knowledgebase for details.
  7. The MSC returns the outcome of the Forward Short operation to the SMS Center.
  8. The SMS Center reports delivery status of the short message back to the sender.
What are the components of an SMS message?

The actual text of the SMS message isn't the only thing that's being transmitted. Here are the elements of a complete SMS transaction:
* Header: identifies the type of message.
* Service Center Timestamp
* Originator Address: the phone number of the sender
* Protocol Identifier
* Data Coding Scheme
* User Data Length: tells how long the message is
* User Data: the message itself (140 bytes: 160 7-bit characters, or 140 8-bit characters)

You won't see any of these components except the User Data (the message itself).

When you send an SMS to an email address, the message is still sent to the SMS Email center, but then it is relayed to the email server of the recipient. The recipient's email address is actually embedded in the User Data portion of the message, transparently on a Treo, or manually on a VisorPhone.

Why 160 Characters?

SMS was designed to deliver short bursts of data such as numerical pages. To avoid overloading the system with more than the standard forward-and-response operation, the inventors of SMS agreed on a 160-character maximum message size.

But the 160-character limit is not absolute. Length limitations may vary depending on the network, phone model and wireless carrier. Some phones don't allow you to keep typing once the 160-character limit is reached. You must send your message before continuing. However, some services will automatically break any message you send into chunks of 160 characters or less. So, you can type and send a long message, but it will be delivered as several messages.

SMS has several advantages. It is more discreet than a phone conversation, making it the ideal form for communicating when you don't want to be overheard. It is often less time-consuming to send a text message than to make a phone call or send an e-mail. SMS doesn't require you to be at your computer like e-mail and instant messaging (IM) do -- although some phones are equipped for mobile e-mail and IM services. SMS is also a convenient way for deaf and hearing-impaired people to communicate.

SMS is a store-and-forward service, meaning that when you send a text message to a friend, the message does not go directly to your friend's cell phone. The advantage of this method is that your friend's cell phone doesn't have to be active or in range for you to send a message. The message is stored in the SMSC (for days if necessary) until your friend turns his cell phone on or moves into range, at which point the message is delivered. The message will remain stored on your friend's SIM card until he deletes it.

In addition to person-to-person messages, SMS can be used to send a message to a large number of people at a time, either from a list of contacts or to all the users within a particular area. This service is called broadcasting and is used by companies to contact groups of employees or by online services to distribute news and other information to subscribers.

In a 2004 University of Plymouth study on the psychology of SMS users, researchers found that mobile phone users were primarily either "texters" or "talkers". Compared to the talkers, the texters sent nearly double the number of SMS messages and made less than half as many voice calls per month. The texters preferred SMS to voice calls for its convenience as well as for the ability to review a message before sending it.

Our online SMS service have come up with many uses for the service beyond just your typical person-to-person message. Because SMS doesn't overload the network as much as phone calls, it is frequently used by TV shows to let viewers vote on a poll topic or for a contestant. As a promotional tool, wireless carriers put up giant screens at concerts and other large-scale events to display text messages from people in the audience.

More SMS information can be found here: Why SMS | SMS explained | SMS using AT command | SMS reliability

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