Well I just switched over to Fido month-to-month with the 500mb data & I'm pretty happy so far. I did find out the email-to-SMS adress I was looking for from this Wikipedia page (#@fido.ca), but unfortunately you get the "you must send a reply to get the actual message" BS, so it's not at all useful for what I had in mind.

I was formerly using SMS as a make-shift emergency paging system from the office. Any of the systems I monitor would send me an SMS if anything was down & I'd turn my phone on silent @ night for anything except SMS. Not perfect, but it worked. So I guess now the systems can't wake me in the middle of the night anymore. Oh well .

Interestingly I found after reading this Wikipedia page that there is also a way to send an email message via SMS. It works but I don't see what I'd ever use it for, but hey, it's interesting .

I still have some confusion I'll have to clear up with Fido about their plans. I signed up for the $20 month-to-month instead of the $15 'cause it had unlimited evenings & weekends, but the sales clerk pointed out that it would cost $10/month to get voice mail & call display (the only two things out of that package I want). That's $25/month. Well, if I were to instead use the $19/month prepaid plan which has the same day-time minutes & includes 300 minutes e/w (more than enough for me), that includes the two above addons, so I'd be $6/month ahead . The only two things I find funny is that it shows the prepaid plan $6 more if I wanted automatic billing & it doesn't list the data plans as addons, so it may be that I'm already as good as it's going to get.

Of course customer service is closed for the evening, so I'll have to make time to call clear this up tomorrow.

TX