another company providing a similar service is IceTrak (www.icetrak.co.uk)
Irene Warden, Notes/Email Administrator Infrastructure Services public sector Flex FUJITSU ONS, Government Bldgs, Cardiff Road, Newport, NP10 8XG E-mail: irene.war...@uk.fujitsu.com (mailto:irene.war...@uk.fujitsu.com) Web: http://uk.fujitsu.com (http://uk.fujitsu.com/) jim.wall...@serco.com Sent by: salive@woodstone.nu 01/03/2011 09:32 Please respond to salive@woodstone.nu To salive@woodstone.nu cc Subject RE: [SA-list] SMS Alerting and alternatives Graham I used an internet service very successfully. The company was called Redcoal www.redcoal.com (http://www.redcoal.com/) and you didnât need any programming skills The solution wasnât very elegant but worked extremely well. You simply send an email alert to <mobile number>@redcoal.com and it turns it into an SMS message Not used it for a while but from memory they cost about 3p a message if you purchase a job lot of texts up front. Will also send to groups of users with one email. Worked very well for me. Jim Wallace From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:salive@woodstone.nu] On Behalf Of Graham Brown Sent: 01 March 2011 09:01 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] SMS Alerting and alternatives I know - this comes up a lot... Well, I never got it to work reliably here in the UK. I have tried Vodafone, Three, O2 - have tried with phone attached to the PC, with a standard modem and no dice. I either get nothing at all or it'll work sporadically. So, how can I achieve this? I thought maybe there would be a way of using the Skype SMS service. Has anyone written a custom alert for their own use they would like to share? I'm afraid I don't have programming skills as I saw several docs on how to programmatically send SMS messages via skype and if I could I would create something myself. I saw a post back in 2008 from Dirk about a voice calling service from Skype client - that would be cool as my ringtone is more noticeable than my txt message notification. Any ideas? Thanks Graham To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to salive@woodstone.nu If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to salive@woodstone.nu If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list. This email was received from the INTERNET and scanned by the Government Secure Intranet anti-virus service supplied by Cable&Wireless Worldwide in partnership with MessageLabs. (CCTM Certificate Number 2009/09/0052.) In case of problems, please call your organisation?x02019;s IT Helpdesk. Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or recorded for legal purposes. For the latest data on the economy and society consult National Statistics at http://www.ons.gov.uk ********************************************************************************* Please Note: Incoming and outgoing email messages are routinely monitored for compliance with our policy on the use of electronic communications ********************************************************************************* Legal Disclaimer : Any views expressed by the sender of this message are not necessarily those of the Office for National Statistics ********************************************************************************* The original of this email was scanned for viruses by the Government Secure Intranet virus scanning service supplied by Cable&wirelessWorldwide in partnership with MessageLabs. (CCTM Certificate Number 2009/09/0052.) On leaving the GSi this email was certified virus free. Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or recorded for legal purposes. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to salive@woodstone.nu If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list.
