Philippine mobile users bypass international roaming costs

Link: Pinoy Twitterers launch their own sms service

Philippine fans of Twitter had a hard time with the international SMS cost as we all do. Twitter only provides US, Canada, India and UK numbers for inbound SMS and the cost of these are quite prohibitive.

Pat caught this one earlier. Smart. Some inventive Philippine users of Twitter have knocked up an interface enabling the transmission of international text messages via the service for next to nothing.

I haven’t heard of something similar in the UK but it’s certainly possible — maybe something that could be entered into the upcoming Esendex Developer Competition.