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Old 6th Jul 2010, 18:38
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IO540
 
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Yes, all you need is a GSM radio with a serial port (the modems are now well below £100) but you would need a prepay account function, to fund the outgoing messages.

Both the above sites seem to be prepay sites. The 2nd one should make good money, at 30 euro cents per message...

I think that a number of people looked into this, a few years ago before every half decent phone could browse the internet, and gave up on it for various reasons. I even "worked out" a way to transmit weather radar images using several text messages... Almost nobody in GA will pay for anything which they can get free elsewhere.
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