I didn’t use teleflip very often, but on the occasions that I want to send an SMS to someone’s cell phone and didn’t have mine handy, it was extremely convenient. Just send an email to <domest cell phone number>@teleflip.com, and teleflip would deliver it to the cell phone almost instantly. (Apparently there was also a reverse SMS to Email service called Flipout, but I never had the occasion to use that. )
I didn’t think much of it when a Teleflip I sent the other day returned a “delayed” message; email systems are sometimes just not working. I didn’t need it much with my recent SmartPhone acquisition and “all you can eat” talk - data - text phone contract. When I got a follow delay message and couldn’t access the Teleflip web site, I took out the trusty Google, and learned that Teleflip had discontinued its (free) email to sms service mid August. The company was working with other services, which apparently didn’t sell very well and the money ran out. And, of course, I wasn’t the only one who didn’t need the service any more.
There’s a lot of that going around in the Tech sector these days.
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