43. Can I page my friend in Korea using WWW or e-mail? Is there any Paging service-Net gateway in Korea? How about leaving a message on a celluar phone with text display panel?
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This article is from the Hangul & Internet in Korea FAQ, by Jungshik Shin jshin@minerva.cis.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.
43. Can I page my friend in Korea using WWW or e-mail? Is there any Paging service-Net gateway in Korea? How about leaving a message on a celluar phone with text display panel?
Yes, you don't have to make an international call
to page her/him. Quite a number of mobile
telecommunication companies offer Internet to
Pager(and PCS/digital celluar phone) gateway
service. You may find all of them at
http://www3.joongang.co.kr/messenger/
Naray Mobile Telecom has offered mail-pager
gateway service since early October,1996. If your
friend's pager number is 015-300-1234, you can
send text message to her(his) pager via e-mail to
3001234.paging@naray.com. You can also page
her(him) on the web at
http://www.naray.co.kr/svc/pager_webcall.htm (for
text message. up to 40 Hangul syllables) and
http://vms.naray.com/svc/pager_voicecall.htm for
voice message(up to 250 Hangul syllables). Other
services such as group paging are also available.
SK Telecom also offers web-pager and web-celluar
phone(with text-display panel) gateway service at
http://gate.sktelecom.co.kr/paging.html. If this
link is broken, try
http://203.236.1.12/webservice.html, instead.
Korea Telecom also offers Internet to pager
gateway at http://pager.kornet.ne.kr.
Please, note that this service might be limited to
those living in Seoul or service areas covered by
Naray mobile telecom and SK Telecom(used to be
Korea mobile telecom).
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