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Recently the largest cellular phone company in Japan released a line of Linux based cell phones, accompanied with a commitment to open up their market to outsiders. Whilst MMS or eMail messaging in Japan is quite inexpensive (and quite often free) the rest of the world is still using SMS. Expat"s such as myself still send / receive SMS messages from friends and family abroad. Replying to such messages is expensive (in some cases up to $USD0.50 each message) and on some handsets difficult. Now that iAppli (java software for iMode phones) has been opened up on many the Japanese phones, an application that can deliver SMS"s via the internet should be received well by the expatriate community here (and in other countries with high carrier-cost SMS"s). The application would need connectivity to an SMS gateway (such as clickatell).
I thought of this idea when I was...
I am on contract in Japan and it is costing me a fortune for SMS, so I set up a web page to deliver messages via a gateway that costs me less then $US0.05 per message. Now that my mates here know about it - they are also using it.
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