Internet Voice Mail

Author: Sharon Housley
How Reliable are Cell Phones? Cellular phones and pagers are

part of the "now" generation, instant contact, anywhere at any

time. People are looking for convenience, comfort and security.

The question is how instantaneous and reliable is the contact?

Talking with someone is the main use for a cell phone, yet due

to poor reception how often do calls not go through, or

important calls "dropped" due to flaky coverage? Let us not

forget, that in a time of tragedy, lines were congested and the

resounding "all circuits busy" messages were heard from coast to

coast. There is certainly room for improvement if you want to

reach out and touch someone.

The alternative to voice communication is traditional text

messaging, enjoyed by the young as SMS, a 'hip' communication

method, and the older as the tried and true paging, a

trustworthy means of communication. A carrier receives pages or

text messages via a traditional dial up modem or Internet

connection to their terminal, and then broadcasts the messages

over their network to the appropriate wireless device. How

instant is sending a text message? The answer might surprise

you...it depends.

Traditional means of sending text messages is surprisingly

reliable and fast. However, many cellular carriers, wishing to

merge technologies while keeping costs down, have opted to

utilize email technology to send text messages. Why not, an

email is nothing more than a text message, using the Simple Mail

Transfer Protocol (SMTP). On the surface this sounds like a

great idea, nearly everyone has email access, and the use of the

Internet streamlines the sending of messages.

What is often overlooked, is the fact that email was not

designed to be time sensitive. There can b....[MORE]

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