work phone, no texting allowed on their plan

[arw01]

Work provides the verizon service for our phones. They have opted NOT to have text messaging as it adds a couple grand a month to the corporate phone bill.

Is their a way I can use a pre-paid card for texting, or some website widget that would give me texting to a different number or some other option I have never heard of?

 

[bmyers_az]

Google voice is perfect for this.

 

[SMJUCmoose]

Agreed, Google voice is exactly what you need... unfortunately you need to be invited to use the program. If I had an Invite i'd gladly share but I don't. Check the Google voice section in on this website. Also some people sell the invites on eBay and such.

 

[p08757]

+100 on the Google voice thing. That way you can also give out your Google voice number to friends and keep the work number for work.

Good luck!

 

[Jeatin]

I have an invite for ya if you would like it. Send me a PM.

 

[arw01]

Thank you for the invite

I happened to find one on Ebay for $6.99 and took em up on it.

Now just need to wait for the droid to arrive and get that going on there. I use google apps for personal email, so the dis-connect between gmail and google apps might cause me some trouble.