E-mail to SMS service change
If you have a CERN e-mail account, you have probably already used one of the popular services that CERN’s IT Department offers to CERN users: the mail2SMS service.It allows any CERN e-mail account holder to send short messages (SMS) free of charge to CERN GSM phone numbers.
Further to recent negotiations with our GSM operator, this service has been extended. It is now possible to send short messages free of charge to any Swiss mobile number.
This extension of service aims at replacing the similar service that was made available by SWITCH(1) to CERN users (address: mobilenumber@sms.switch.ch). Because of repeated abuse, this service will be definitively stopped for CERN users on 15th January 2010.
Please keep in mind that CERN’s e-mail to SMS service still has some restrictions: messages can only be sent from CERN mail accounts, and not from personal ones, such as GMAIL, MSN, Yahoo; the maximum length of the message is 160 characters (standard maximum SMS length); and only Swiss mobile numbers can be reached.
Complete information about the new features of the service.
For any questions, call the Telecom Lab on 72480 or send an e-mail to Labo.Telecom@cern.ch
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(1) SWITCH: is the Swiss national organization that aims at interconnecting Swiss academic networks.
by IT Department