Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/09/07 00:01

SpaceGirl wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>>>
>>> Certainly *plenty* of people are getting e-mail by phone. That *is*
>>> the Internet, you know. When you say "browse the Internet", you're
>>> really referring specifically to the Web.
>>>
>>
>> Text messaging is not email. A lot of people I know use their phone
>> for text messaging. No one uses it for email. Those who need a
>> mobile email device (like my wife) have a blackberry.
>
> SMS (text messages) are sent via IP these days. That's the Internet.
>

While you can send an SMS message from the internet to a phone, that's
an interface from the internet to the phones. Most text messaging is
directly between two phones and never touches the internet. It follows
a similar path that regular phone calls do - and those don't go over the
internet.

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