About eSMS

eSMS allows for easy, convenient and fast communication via SMS and MMS with customers, colleagues and friends.

It is unbeatable if you want to communicate brief, urgent information to a group of people who are on the move.

The eSMS products are integrated seamlessly into applications that most of us use every day, including Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Payment for using eSMS could not be easier – the cost of sending messages is simply added to your standard mobile phone bill or prepaid account from your operator.


Background

The way we communicate has changed almost beyond recognition in the space of little more than a decade. Internet, mobile phones, instant messaging and voice-over-IP, technologies almost unheard of even a decade ago, are now integral to the way we communicate.

People now stay in touch across borders, 24 hours a day, seven days a week from their PC’s and mobile phones.

The convergence of wireless and fixed-line services is the latest trend in global communication; increasingly, people want to share information from their PC’s with people on the move or simply away from their desks. This is where PC-to-mobile messaging – a truly onvergent service – comes in.

PC-to-mobile messaging, a concept developed by General Wireless, works from all PCs to all mobiles. It enables people to compose SMS and MMS on their PC and send them to mobile phones.

General Wireless’s pioneering of PC-to-mobile messaging through its eSMS product range won it the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship.
 

eSMS plug-ins

eSMS is a suite of PC plug-ins to enable SMS and MMS to be sent from the PC.

eSMS Outlook is the plug-in that integrates into Microsoft Outlook. It allows the user to send SMS and MMS to contacts in the Outlook and Exchange addressbooks. The latest version of the Outlook plug-in supports Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Outlook 2007.

eSMS Desktop is the plug-in that integrates nicely into the Windows environment. It integrates into Outlook Express and Windows Mail (on Vista). It creates an SMS Toolbar in Internet Explorer and it includes a stand-alone application. You can put multimedia content or text into your message by right-clicking in Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer, or simply by dragging and dropping. The latest version supports Microsoft Vista.

End-user features

SMS

• SMS sending via 'New SMS' button in command bar
• Support for concatenated messages
• SMS Notifications from meeting reminders
• Scheduled SMS messages for later delivery
• SMS Outbox folder stores messages composed offline, meeting reminders and scheduled messages

MMS

• MMS sending via 'New MMS' button in command bar
• Rich multimedia support; text, images, sound, video, MMS textmessaging
• Intelligent downsizing and conversion of multimedia files
• Support for SMIL
• "Simple Mode" for rapid creation of MMS, compose-and-send as easily as e-mail
• "Advanced Mode" for creation of more complex MMS message

General

• Integration with address books in Microsoft environments
• Status/delivery confirmation of all sent messages
• Sent SMS/MMS folder stores sent messages
   

eSMS offerings from mobile operators

Around 20 leading mobile operators have launched eSMS and eMMS services using their own brand name. They have all chosen different ways of packaging the service, ie name of service, pricing, plug-ins etc. You can learn more about your operator’s offering by clicking on their logo. If your operator is not on this website, you can use the eSMS service from our partner 21st Century Mobile Solutions where you buy SMS credits using a credit card.