The maintenance team then reports completion of the issue by sending a text message and closes the ticket.
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Mr Mazkouri described himself as a technophobe who had trouble sending a text message, so was "dumbfounded" by the download of such a huge chunk of data.
The campaign is supported by the family of Jemma O'Sullivan who was killed when a lorry driver who was sending a text message crashed into her car.
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Mr North told the committee that alternatives could include transferring money on mobile phones in a similar way to sending a text message, just by knowing the other person's phone number.
By making it as simple as just sending a text message to start a conversation, these tools help to accelerate the on-boarding and adoption process, making online collaboration visible, engaging, and participatory.
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The telco industry charges more, kilobyte by kilobyte, for sending a text message from your phone to next door than what it costs to send the same message from Mars to Earth.
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When he was arrested, he initially claimed someone else called Troy had used his phone, however he was caught sending a text message using that name from a police station after his arrest.
The new service helps save lives by enabling patients to validate the integrity of their medicine by sending a free text message.
Depending on your math and service plan, the price of sending a simple SMS text message can range from a minor nuisance, to high-tech highway robbery.
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But they changed their text style when sending a message to women, writing longer and more substantial messages.
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Account owners will be asked by their banks if they want to opt-in to a database that will allow the sending of money by text message.
If website visitors click on the Scout Drive Button from their computer rather than their phone, Scout will offer the option of sending a link to launch navigation on their phone via a text message or mobile email.
At the time, push email was rare -- although prevalent on BlackBerry handsets -- and text messages were still a good way of sending an important message to the top of someone's crowded screen.
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