Blog by SMS or Cell Text Message

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Blog by SMS or Cell Text Message
Lome, Togo West Africa
Wednesday, March 7, 2007

I purchased a SIM card with Togocel here in Lome, Togo, the card cost 2500 CFA or about 5 US dollars, and I guess I have a credit of 2500 CFA to make calls, so a very good deal.

Last night I tried about 5 combinations of numbers to text a message to the United Kingdome or England, whereby some telephone number is suppose to convert a text message to an email.

I am sort of excited, Andrew Boy Genius of India has made it work, therefore there is hope for me. I text messaged a Togo girl and she text me back. It works inside the country of Togo.

NOW!!! The annoying part, I need to discover the correct combination of numbers to get out of Togo. If I find a Peace Corps Volunteer, I am sure they will know how to call, I am not sure they would use the cheap text message because this is not the fashion in the USA.

I have not seen many Brits in Togo, they all go to Ghana where they can speak English. French go to French places, and English go to English places, and Spanish go to Spanish places.

More about not leaving your country, then about going to another country. People do not go where life is difficult or they may learn something. Togo is easier than Ghana though, Ghana copies the violent black gang music of the USA, and Togo copies the less violent music of France.

I am going to the countryside, up country, where they do not copy the MTV music world. I need to blog, so the world does not get worried. I seem to have two options. GPRS with Togocel or Text Message or SMS with Togocel.

I hope to get both working today, there is hope. GPRS is better, however as of now, I sat and asked the price per kilobyte for transfer in the Togocel office. Nobody knows, it is either 5 Francs, or .05 Francs or .005 Francs, and I can only WISH or dream of .0005 Francs.

I asked, do you have a page or sheet of prices?
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Buying a pig in a poke, they will sell it, but they could not tell me how much it cost. I think I will soon learn and can tell someone, if this exist and the NGO’s are still using Satellites in Togo, they are throwing money up in the air, unless the cost is very high.

I had made a decision, I think the GPRS is better than Satellite on the planet for many reasons, unless on a boat.

HOPE, I hope a text message blog post will arrive on this blog soon, what a headache. Frustrations and pushing to make life happen, forcing the play, making it happen. A person can not be beaten that never quits.

None of the test worked, I think I need some special numbers to exit the country, the + sign does not work.

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Anonymous said on Saturday June 28th, 2008 03:57:00 AM

Did you guys got to use MobiYard Software ?? Check this out Free Mobile SMS Worldwide.. Let me know if anyone have used it.

Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Saturday June 28th, 2008 04:16:00 AM

Never used it, had a lot of problems with texting, it has never worked to blog in a stable manner.

Funny Text said on Thursday September 11th, 2008 10:11:00 PM

Good Job

Marc Maxson said on Thursday February 12th, 2009 01:21:00 PM

This is exactly the same type of tool I've been trying to set up in Kenya. How can I create a blog and put the text-message number for posting direct to that blog on a bumper sticker (like "how's my driving? Text complains to ____)?

Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Thursday February 12th, 2009 02:14:00 PM

Yes, a good idea, I change countries all the time and truly not so easy.

Reverse Phone Detective said on Sunday June 7th, 2009 06:24:55 AM
http://www.textmessage-marketing.com

Marc - If you use Twitter you can send a text message from your mobile phone which can show up on your blog post.

Hope that helps...