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Originally Posted by SaltyOnionBalls

Also the Edit SMS Options link is not showing up, the template was modified and I can clearly see the coding in the template.

That seems to be a common problem. I think I've worked it out, but I'm waiting to release an update until I get a little more done with this.

Originally Posted by jerx

Thank you for the detailed explaination! But I think I have to disappoint some of you.

I know that in Germany all companies charge the (email) text message receiver for this service. Moreover that person has to activate that kind of service, otherwise he will not receive anything. The price is very expensive, each text message costs its receiver at least 19 Cents. I don' t know of any plan which provides this for free or for a flat rate.

Therefore the only way to provide text message service is to pay for sms gateways and charge your forum users. This reduces the costs of an sms to 7 Cent or even lower. The only problem is that you would need to charge the text message sender, if you don' t want to loose money.

I think that most messages are not as important that anyone would be willing to spent money on it, but if you allow the sender to input any numbers, so that he can also text message non forum users, this might be of interest. But I really don' t know. There are prepaid sms providers, internet sms providers and discount mobile phone plans, which led to low short message prices in the past years. There are even flat sms plans, so either your forum sms rates would be more expensive or only slightly lower. Overall I think there are still many people who pay at least 15 Cent/sms, so that these people might be willing to pay, if your service works well and is easy to use, eg address book.

I saw that iogames had Germany listed. I think that most messages cannot be received, since 99% will have deactivated email text messages (it is deactivated by default and nowadays with all that spam it is not advisable to activate it). I could not test, because it is not possible to input the full mobile number.

Why are you so eager to implement 3.7.0 compatibility? I think that everyone who has updated from 3.6 to 3.7 should update vb to the latest version anyway.

Yeah, I've seen that it's the case that way with certain companies. That's why I said it's free most of the time. Maybe I can find a way to get cheaper/free messages to those places eventually, without requiring signup for a bunch of crap.

I'm trying to get 3.7.0 to work because some people report they are unable to upgrade from it. However, on my test 3.7.0 forums, the current product installed just fine. I've changed the installation method but haven't released it, like I said, until I get some more work done with this first.