Have you ever tried to send SMS text message to your friends overseas just to realize that your wireless operator (for example Verizon, Sprint, AT&T Wireless, Rogers and many others) does not provide this function? If you have an account with ipipi.com you can send text messages to any phone number on the planet, directly from your cell.

The trick is to have your ipipi.com account relay the message for you. In other words, you send text messages to our service with instructions what you want it to do. iPiPi.com will then execute your request and send your message to any cell number on the planet. You can even send a message that will result in many messages sent to many of your friends simultaneously! Similarly, you can send email messages to one or many email addresses at once, directly from your phone.

In order to do so you first need to configure your SMS account.

1. Make sure you have positive account balance. To purchase credits click on the "Buy Now" link in your account.
2. Register your phone
3. In your address book create entries for your friends. Make sure that you enter properly formatted SMS numbers and short nicknames for each entry.
4. You can even group your friends and assign a nickname for the entire group

Then, when you want to send SMS from your phone to the group compose a message similar to:

s g Hello mate, how's life Downunder?
and send it to our SMS gateway

In the above example, "s" is a command that tells our servers to initiate SMS on your behalf to the SMS number referenced by nickname "g" in your address book. Your friend will receive message "Hello mate, how's life Downunder?"

If you want to send email to your friend(s) from your SMS phone, simply replace "s" with "e". For example: e g Hello mate, how's life?

• Click here for a step-by-step example on how to send SMS from your phone.
• Click here for a step-by-step example on how to send email from your phone.