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Australian companies might not charge *you* for receiving sms, that doesn't mean they don't charge twitter for letting these messages into the country. – Sjors Provoost, on August 14, 2008 03:30

I am more "concerned" about developing countries. There are 3 billion phones on the planet, most of them are owned by people who do not have Internet yet. I would prioritize good deals with telcos in these countries.

That or you can wait for the competition to do it :-)

I am not so much concerned about Australia (even though I live there now): city people should dump the over priced GSM network anyway and make some more progress with wifi (mesh) networks.

My suggestion to twitter would be to sponsor projects like:
* Fonera (share your internet, get free internet everywhere)
* Meraki (mesh networks, they have some dubious things though)
* Openmesh (mesh networks)

Help them get a strong foothold in Australia and virtually nobody will ever need sms anymore.

These technologies are barely available in Australia; partially because of permit issues, partially because Australians don't want them badly enough, yet...

I you were willing to spend $1000 per customer on sms, then sending every user a $50 dollar Fonera / Meraki / Openmesh router sounds like a very cheap deal.

One day we could sing: "Schade Telstra alles ist vorbei, alles ist vorbei..." (that's what the Dutch sing when, if ever, they beat the Germans at footy).

Sjors

My sms delivery stopped a few days ago. I am not anywhere near my limit. My phone sms memory is not full. My phone is on 24/7 and the network reception in my city (Utrecht, Netherlands) is excellent.

I can probably fix it by sending a text message to the UK number, but this exercise is getting a bit expensive. It would be great if I can see and fix this problem, like Morghus suggests.

Is it possible to:
1 - make Twitter send an email a bit before it is about to turn off sms service
2 - allow one to go only and click "please try again" at which point twitter will sent a test message

That would be really cool.

Cheers,

Sjors

Hi Crystal,
Sending ON to the phone number worked. However, after a while I had no signal for a couple of days and I had to repeat the procedure. This is a bit of a problem when you are in the middle of nowhere on vacation. Is it possible to increase the time-out to a week?

When I go to settings, my notifications are 'on' so I guess your problem is slightly different than mine.

Hi, I'd rather not do that because my roaming costs are probably bizar. What I did try is to turn off sms notifications and then turn them on again. That did not work, but I tried it again just now, so maybe it will work this time.