I've got to send some information by SMS and I cannot just type it into the phone due to language restrictions. Specifically I need to send Thai script that I get from a translation program. I know it is not perfect but I can get the script into a copy / paste scenario and I need a PC based service to send the SMS to a Thai mobile.

Any ideas ? I was going to use the service here but I see it was scrapped last year.

Get onto Skype

it has an SMS facility

Can offer three solutions, none free:

1.) If an AIS/One-2-Call subscriber download their AIS MMS/SMS Toolbar, which is both a browser plug-in and free-standing application which allows you to originate SMSes on a PC. I use this app. daily. It is registered to your phone so you pay your package rate per SMS.

2.) If a Nokia user, download Nokia PC Suite. This allows you to originate SMSes on yuor PC and then send via the connected mobile phone.

3.) Subscribe to a paid service like Telemessage (which is what AIS use for #1 in this list). Can use a browser or Outlook as a front-end.

All would allow you to copy/paste. Note sure how they handle Thai characters end-to-end.

Alright it looks like no-one has a fre service anymore.

So does anyone have a solution to get Thai characters into a phone when the user cannot write them in himself ? That way I could just SMS from the phone.

As mentioned, Skype does have an SMS feature assuming you've put down the minimum $10 U.S. deposit to activate your Skype "Calling Out" account.

I don't know their exact pricing for SMS, but considering their phone call pricing, it's got to be dirt cheap. It didn't sound like the OP had so many SMS to send that cost should be a big issue.

Another reason to get a Skype Call Out account, if for no other, is they give you unlimited free phone calls to any toll-free numbers in the U.S. Using Skype for those calls alone has saved me a fortune, since almost every bank, retailer, etc etc. has a toll-free number these days.

The prior PC-to-Phone service I was using before for international calls had decent rates, but they charged those same country rates per minute regardless of whether it was a regular or toll-free number. Skype is great in that regard.

About the issue of using Thai characters via Skype SMS, here below is what one Skype web page says. Maybe some bigger geek than me out there can translate what this info means in terms of being able to use Thai characters....

Can I use special characters in my SMS?

The maximum number of characters per SMS message through Skype is 160. However, some characters take up more space than the others.

Why is this?

There are two types of formats for SMS - these are 'GSM character set' and 'Unicode character set'.

You can send 160 characters with GSM character set supported characters. However, if you enter a character that is not not listed, the format of the message will change to Unicode. In this case the number of characters is reduced to 70.

This is not a bug but a feature of SMS and unfortunately cannot be altered.

Yes, some "free sms" systems exist, but it often comes with the whole SIP phone call package.

Check this out:

http://www.sms-rates.com/en/index.php

Didn't Yahoo Messenger have free SMS in Thailand, among other countries, once?