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Anyone remember the free text numbers?

  • 24-11-2004 8:21pm
    #1
    legofsalmon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭


    Just a lil bit of nostalgia....

    Remember the free service centre numbers that you could use on ready to go with eircell? ( I'm not sure if you coudl use them on esat)

    Were brilliant things, so much fun and soo free. Anyone know how they ended up stopping it?


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Removed the numbers from service? Fixed the blatent hole that was costing?

    Like they weren't going to notice a couple fo thousand messages a night going through the wrong center...


  • #3
    radiospan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭radiospan


    I remember some Luxembourg number that could be used as the message centre number for free texts alright, although I don't think I had a phone then.

    What was the story behind these? Why did people set them up, how did people find out about them?


  • #4
    otron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭otron


    These were the standard SMSC's of other mobile phone networks. For a while it was difficult for them to prevent other networks customers using their equipment (a case of being caught on the hop!), but it got closed down eventually.

    I used to work for a company who provided the SMSC's, and I remember there were hoards of Spanish and Greek users that migrated en mass from network to network as they got shut down. Interesting (and amusing) to see!


  • #5
    Healio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Healio


    The two i remember, one was t-mobile in germany, the other was spice or something like that from india.


  • #6
    legofsalmon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭legofsalmon


    yeah I remember we must have gone through at least 10 of them, they kept not working... ahh well....

    I was young and it was fun alright while it lasted, everyone knew that they'd have to cop on soon enough, but alas! :)

    just bringing it up for nostalgic value :)


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