ah, this is what I've been digging to find out.  Hmm, well being that AOL is kind of sort of owned by a slightly large company, they prob got the funds to do stuff, eh?  cell companies get phone#'s in blocks from the FCC, so it probably is not hard to get the cell#-to-cell company relationship.  Now, with WNP, how is this going to change?   hmm....

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Burns, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:49 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Cell phone text messaging...

But how does AOL know which provider the user has?  When you set it up,
they don't ask what carrier you have.  All you enter is your phone
number.  

John Burns

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:13 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Cell phone text messaging...

On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 14:53 pm, Burns, John wrote:
> Right, but by only giving AOL 3018675309, how does it know that it
> should be sent to SprintPCS? Or maybe AT&T, T-mobile, Cingular,
Verizon, etc?

The message is just sent to whoever mobile operator the provider is
connected to, and they then forward it on just as if you had entered the
number into a mobile phone.

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