Yes. Verizon Wireless subscribers can receive messages from other carriers' subscribers addressed to their 10-digit mobile number. Registered vtext.com users can also tell their friends to send messages to their nickname@vtext.com. (i.e. 5552223333@vtext.com or Sam@vtext.com).

Yes, refer to the Coverage Locator footer link on Verizon Wireless to look up available SMS coverage areas.

No, but most digital phones can. If you're not sure, ask your parents to contact your cell phone service provider to ask about their text messaging service.

Note: With regard to video messages, Cingular will only accept video messages with file sizes of 100Kb or less. If this size is exceeded, Cingular will deliver the message, but not the video attachment. Verizon Wireless phones are capable of recording videos of 30 seconds length and 200Kb file size. Before sending your video message to a Cingular friend, make sure to check the size of the video to make sure it is 100Kb or less in size.

No, however you can send picture/video messages from your phone to your friend's non-Verizon Wireless phone, as long as your friend uses one of the following carrier's service: Note: With regard to video messages, Cingular will only accept video messages with file sizes of 100Kb or less. If this size is exceeded, Cingular will deliver the message, but not the video attachment. Verizon Wireless phones are capable of recording videos of 30 seconds length and 200Kb file size.

All of the providers listed above will include Verizon Wireless as a wireless carrier selection on their websites, and enable you to participate/order downloadable premium content.

Text Messaging ? sometimes known as SMS (short messaging service) - is a way of communicating short messages via your wireless phone. Most (but not all) handsets have this feature. For On The Lot, only Verizon Wireless customers can vote by text message using their wireless phone keypad to write the message VOTE and sending it to the number assigned to the Director. This 4 digit number, such as 6820, relates directly to your Director of choice and will be displayed on the show.

No. Text to Landline works with all text messaging capable handsets which have not "blocked" messaging services from Verizon Wireless. Calls to retrieve voice messages sent to you in response to your Text to Landline messages are "billed per your Calling Plan." You may incur Long Distance charges if you subscribe to a Calling Plan that doesn't include domestic long distance or a local plan.

with the toll-free voting, each Director will also be assigned his or her own Verizon Wireless text message number during the show ? this 4 digit short code number will appear on your TV screen alongside the toll-free phone numbers.

The design of the text voting is exactly the same as the toll-free voting system in terms of open/close times and regions (with the exception of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which cannot vote via text message). The Director short code numbers will be very similar to the toll-free numbers. If you wish to vote for Director 1, for example, you can either call 1 88THE LOT 01 (1 888 435 6801) OR Verizon Wireless subscribers can text the word VOTE to 6801.

Subscribers will get access to new features as we think them up. Currently the only advantage they have is access to Slashdot without banner ads. We will not be removing features from non-subscribers. Things you have on Slashdot now will not be taken away from you. But there will eventually be new and exciting rewards for subscribers.

No, Q-500 is our global high capacity outbound service only. If you require 2way messaging please refer to our Q-900 global 2way SMS services.

s3 signals strives to ensure that SMS messages get to you by using a premium texting service that guarantees delivery. Delivery is usually within 15 seconds. However, should you fail to receive a text we are not responsible for any losses you may incur due to the inadequacy of the phone network signal strength or circumstances outside of our control.

Text messages from PL8SCAN will show our short code (75863) as the sender. You might find it handy to add PL8SCAN to your address book and use 75863 as our mobile number so that our name shows when you receive a text message.

Yes, you will. Please note that, although your mobile phone service provider may charge you more for providing text messages to you while abroad, there will be no such surcharge for text messages provided by GNT.

This depends on what country you‘re in. Messages are divided into "units" (like coins) and sometimes your currency has to divide into a lot of smaller units - if this is the case you‘ll receive more messages before your tone is downloaded. Polyphonic tones are synthesised versions of our digitally recorded Realtones. The exact sound of the polyphonic tone depends upon the sounds that your manufacturer has loaded into your phone. These vary from phone to phone.

Nearly every cellular phone in use in the United States (and the world) can receive text messages. Most wireless carriers include text messaging in their standard plans.

Yes. We don't charge you anything for the incoming messages. Recipients will only reflect there standard rate for text message (check with your plan and carrier.) EzTexting does not charge you, the end-consumer/recipient, anything to receive a message. However, depending on your specific wireless carrier and pricing plan/package, you may be charged a standard rate for text messages sent and received.

Anyway, to get gsend and gsub to properly interpret non-ASCII text, you'll need to tell them what encoding to use for reading in and sending out. You can do this by setting the gale variable GALE_CHARSET (either in the environment, or one of the conf files) to an appropriate. You'll probably want either "LATIN1" or "UTF-8", but other encodings may be possible. Check the documentation for iconv on your system. (iconv -l lists available character sets.

Yes; but messages from non-subscribers are first detoured to one of the listowners (usually Douglas Winship) to be approved for appropriateness before being forwarded to the list. Non-appropriate messages are those outside the scope of the list, subscription-related messages that were mis-addressed, etc. Such messages are discarded.

No, messages from non-subscribers of the OLAC-List are returned to the poster. However, you do not have to be a member of OLAC to be a subscriber to the OLAC-List.

No. You have to sign up - or opt-in - to receive Wireless AMBER Alerts, and to do so, you must have a phone or other device that is capable of receiving text messages.

Verizon Wireless is committed to resolving customer issues quickly and accurately, which is why Verizon Wireless customer service and Communications store employees receive extensive training before they begin working with customers. All employee-facing representatives also participate in ongoing training, including product launch training surrounding the introduction of new products.

No, Helio is an independent phone carrier like any other, such as T-Mobile. The Helio phones use CDMA technology, and can only be activated thru Helio. T-Mobile and Cingular use GSM technology for their phones. Verizon uses CDMA technology as well, but they only activate phones with ESNs that are in their database system.

What's involved in the Verizon FiOS Internet Service Installation process?Prior to ordering your new Verizon FiOS Internet Service, please check to make sure that your computer meets our system requirements. Our system can verify or you can print instructions on how to manually check all of your computers. When you place your order for FiOS Internet Service, you will schedule an appointment time for a Verizon technician to come to your home to conduct the installation process.

If you want to do this, all you have to do is create a file called .signature in your home directory, edit that file, and save it. That file will get added to the end of every message you send using pine, if you don't delete it. Then put the text you want into that file, and quit the editor by hitting the Control key and X. Then say you want to save the file, and hit return to accept the default name. If you want to change it later, you can do that with the same command!