On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:46:44 +0800, Chris Blunt
wrote:
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:19:09 GMT, wrote:

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:37:59 -0800 (PST), andy
wrote:
On 10 Mar, 19:11, wrote:
Anyone knows anything about the sms service "smsbug.com"?

It seems to have gone out of business.
No customer support.
Forum has been removed.
No mail replies for about 4-5 months.

It's installed on my phone, but I hadn't tried using it, beyond
checking the balance of the 5 free trial messages

I just did that again, got the balance in a few seconds, then sent a
message which arrived in 3 or 4 seconds

Yes it does, sometimes, if you happen to send to the "right" net.

We sent about 30-40 sms to a "supported" net in Norway. Not a single
one reached the receipents.

No reaction whatsoever on our mails to the client support. It's now
about 4-5 month ago.

I thought maybe someone knew what has happened. It seems to be working
like an abandoned ship at sea, still floating, but not really working,

But still "working" very nicely from the point of view of the owners
of the system, who still get your money.

Oh no! Not our money anymore! We have been TRYING and testing, on
short term bases, since they started back in summer 2005 to use them
as a cheap way of contacting our customers, but we have never been
able to trust the service.

They have failed to deliever appr. 20 - 50% of our messages. That's
not good enough.

They have exaggerated their coverage, including countries with no
SMS-delievery.

They have blocked logins.

They have no client support and consequently don't answer mails.

It looked like a very good idea from the start, but they failed to
deliever. Pitty... and now it seems they've given up.