Just consider this scenario.
You are in an important meeting with a client, and you are expecting some information from the office which you don't want to miss, but you would rather not be interrupted with a call during your meeting.
What do you do? Do you turn your phone off and miss the call from the office? Do you divert all calls to your voice mail and then, when you hear a voicemail message come through you discover that it's your spouse reminding you to pick up the dry cleaning on the way home? Or do you do the sensible thing and use the SMS service that exists on your mobile phone. Hopefully you do the last.
Well, once you have arranged for LANNet Computing Services to provide you with an SMS paging service, all the office has to do is to send an email to your email page address. That email is picked up by the LANNet paging service, converted into the correct protocol for an SMS message and forwarded on to your mobile service provider for them to send to your phone. You receive prompt, discrete text messages which give the information you need, when you need it, with the minimum of disruption.
LANNet can provide the SMS paging service to any SMS capable digital mobile phone on the Telstra MobileNet service, and we anticipate being able to offer the service to Vodafone customers within a month or so. Sorry, but if you are an Optus customer then your carrier will not let us provide the service.
All the sender needs is to be able to send a plain text email message from their computer to an Internet address unique to your mobile phone, it's as simple as that. No special software is required other than what is probably already available on the office computer.
Just consider another scenario. You have a computer system that you really would like to have send you an alarm when it needs attention. Well, most computers can generate email messages in response to a system alarm. This email message can be directed to your mobile phone. Just think, no more having to carry a separate pager for thos important system alarms.