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Welcome
to 2005! The ipipi staff is as busy as ever, working hard
to make your SMS experience with us the best ever. We recently
welcomed another new staff member, Max, and we've been busy
chatting it up with lots of you on our blog.
This month, be sure to check out our SMS love poem suggestions
for Valentine's day and our 10% off promo. Plus, if you SMS
to Iraq, you might want to help test our new service to Iraq
with free text messages.
Talk
to you next month!
New
Year, New Deal
Need
to stock up on your credits?
Until
January 31st, buy 350-600 credits and get 10% off.
Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year are both coming up and
you'll be sending lots of messages. Save some money and stock
up now.
Free
SMS to and from Iraq
We
recently added SMS networks in Iraq (Orascom/OTI), but we
need some help testing the service - we don't want to start
charging you credits unless we know it works.
So,
if you have friends are family located in Iraq, we're offering
free SMS messages to Iraq until January 31st,
2005.
For
details on this offer read our blog
post.
World
Wide ipipi
In
addition to adding SMS networks in Iraq, we also added service
to North Korea, which means iPiPi now has networks in every
single country in the world. We're now a truly international
SMS service, and we're pretty happy about that.
No
matter where you need to send an SMS, we've got you covered.
What you
NEED to know to receive SMS replies
ipipi users are always asking how to receive sms replies.
Here
are some tips to help you:
1.
A key to receiving an SMS reply? The gateway number - the
phone number you call to send an SMS.
When
you send your SMS message to a gateway number, the gateway
number then sends your message to your friend. When your friend
wants to reply to you, they respond by sending their SMS to
the same gateway number.
See
why the gateway number is so important?
Just
like when you make a regular phone call on your cell phone,
you have to enter a phone number when you send an SMS. (Hint:
if you don't see a number on your screen, it probably isn't
typed in.)
Make
sure you and your friends have the gateway
numbers you need to send and reply to SMS messages.
2.
If you want to receive replies, remember to have your friends'
phones as registered phones in your ipipi
account so the gateway number knows where to deliver each
sms. To register your friends' phones, click on the "registered
devices" link when you login to ipipi.com.
For
more information, visit:
http://www.ipipi.com/help/direct_sms_reply.htm
http://www.ipipi.com/help/tutorial4.htm
http://www.ipipi.com/help/sms-gateway-numbers.htm
Give some
love on Valentine's Day
It's January, which means next month is February, and you
know what that means...Valentine's Day (February 14th).
The
answer to keeping your special someone happy on this day?
Little messages that show you care (plus some chocolate and
flowers don't hurt!) Send an SMS poem or two and I guarantee,
you'll receive lots of thanks.
Here are a few poems to get you started, written by some creative
ipipi staff members. If you want to contribute some of your
own poems, send them to me
and I'll post them on our blog
online.
Candy,
chocolate, hearts, and candles
teddy bears & sweet midnight walks
Tho i'm not there to give u these
I send u luv my sweet Valentine
(138 characters)
Cats go meow and cows go moo
but I'm just blue cause i miss you!
Be my valentine?
(81 characters)
Love grows despite distance &
flowers with time apart. I miss
u dear, but my heart grows strong.
Be my Valentine, I give u my
heart 4ever.
(139 characters)
Join
us at blog.ipipi.com
Conversation
is still alive! We've been chatting up a storm at our new
ipipi blog. Visit and see what we're up to.
Maybe
you want to learn about the SMS
business...
Or,
you want to learn about new cell
phones...
Or
maybe, you just want to do the iPod
Shuffle!
No
matter what, we've got something for everyone, so visit our
blog, and leave a comment
if you like. See you in the blogosphere!
The
Year of the Rooster
Chinese
New Year officially begins on February 9, 2005. The year of
the Monkey ends, and the year of the Rooster begins.
Happy New Year to all our customers celebrating Chinese New
Year!
Learn more
about Chinese New Year.
Have
a great story to share?
We're
sponsoring the Wireless
Innovation Contest 2005, open to residents of the United
States and Canada.
If
you have a wireless innovation that's made a difference, consider
entering this contest for great prizes. Deadline is February
1st.
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