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Spring Special
Put
a spring in your step with this great Spring deal.
Buy
350-600 credits before March 10 and receive 10% off your purchase.
For a limited time, we will also waive the $10 account setup
fee for all new accounts. Recharge your account now.
New
South Africa gateway number (and Serbia soon!)
We're
happy to announce a new gateway in South Africa!
The
gateway number is: 278388943311 or +278388943311
What
does a new gateway number mean for you? Now, when you reply
to your friends and family in South Africa you'll be charged
the cost of a local call. No more long distance charges, which
means you save money.
We
now have gateways in 6 countries, including China and the
Philippines. And more gateways are on the way.
For
information about gateways and how to use them, go here.
For
the full list of gateway numbers, visit http://www.ipipi.com/help/sms-gateway-numbers.htm
Join
us for some wine and conversation at CTIA
As
a sponsor of the Wireless
Innovation Contest, we're looking forward to finding out
who the winners are!
Contest
winners will be announced on March 14, 2:30pm-3:30pm on the
Main Stage at CTIA
in New Orleans, LA.
Attending
CTIA 2005? Check out the awards ceremony, and then join WinBC,
Upside Wireless, and
the contest winners in booth 6512 on March 14.
Or,
drop by booth 6512 anytime during CTIA to chat with our CEO,
Branko Zurkovic.
From
our FAQs: Sending SMS messages from your phone
By
popular demand, we're re-publishing our instructions on how
to send an international SMS from your mobile phone. These
instructions are also available here.
Bookmark this page if you find yourself needing the instructions
over and over again.
Sending
an SMS message is easy with ipipi.com, but you do have to
know a few things:
Step
one: First, do you have any credits in your account?
If you don't have credits, you don't have SMS, so purchase
some credits.
Step
two: Register your phone. You need to tell ipipi.com
that your phone exists. To do this, you need to register your
phone with our system. Go here
for detailed instructions.
Step
three: Set up your address book. ipipi.com needs
to know how to find your friends. To do this, you need to
enter your friends' phone numbers into your ipipi.com address
book. Go here for details on creating address book entries.
The
important step to remember when building your address book
is the "nickname" field. Make sure you pick a short
and easy to remember nickname for each entry. Usually initials
are a good idea (for example, my friend "Johnny Message"
has the nickname "jm" in my address book). Why is
this important, you ask? Well...
Step
four: Send your message. When you send your SMS message,
you're actually doing several things at the same time: 1.
Talking to ipipi.com, 2. Talking to the SMS network, and 3.
Talking to your friend. How do you do all this at the same
time? You need to say WHAT kind of message you're sending,
and WHO you're sending it to.
For
EVERY message, you need to include the following two things
before texting your message:
1.
"s" (without the quotation marks)
2. your friend's nickname
The
"s" is telling ipipi.com WHAT kind of message you
want to send -- an "SMS" message. Entering your
friend's nickname tells iPiPi.com WHO you want to send it
to.
An
example. If I'm sending a message to Johnny Message, I will
text:
"s jm Hey Johnny. What time is the movie tonight?"
"s"
= SMS
"jm" = Johnny's nickname in my address book
Remember
to include a space between each text entry.
Remember,
it's about WHAT (an SMS message) and WHO (your friend's nickname).
Do this for every message you send and you'll always be in
touch with your friends around the world.
For
full details, visit our tutorial.
From
ipipi
Just
a quick hello from the ipipi team. We've been busy lately,
getting ready for CTIA
2005 - a big wireless conference going on in New Orleans
from March 14-17. Branko, the CEO of ipipi's parent company,
Upside Wireless, will be at the event. If you're attending
the conference, feel free to drop by booth 6512 for a visit.
For
the rest of you, we've got a great Spring pricing special
for you, plus another new gateway number to keep your texting
costs down.
Talk
to you next month!
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