Concerning international text messaging

[David Woolley]

Etan Reisner wrote:

> 
> That being said I don't know any services that do text messaging other
> than those covered in the FAQ (and those are US only last I knew). I

I don't know about SMS, but the US operates a charging system where the 
callee pays for the excess cost of mobile calls.  In Europe, the caller 
pays the excess costs.  That means that anyone gatewaying between IM and 
SMS has to have some means of recovering the costs.

> believe there are some XMPP services which bridge to text messaging but
> you can search Google for them as well as I can at this point.
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