BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless unveiled www.vtext.com, a short text messaging Web site designed to help customers send text messages to individuals and groups and set up information alerts.
The service works with the carrier’s Mobile Messenger text messaging service, allowing the sender to confirm delivery that the message was received by the phone and receive a data and time stamp. In addition, two-way messaging capable phones can reply back to the vtext.com Web site creating an interactive chat session.
The alert function, provided through a partnership with ScreamingMedia, includes financial information, sports news, national and international headline news, entertainment and celebrity gossip and weather. Users can also access a personal calendar page to input birthdays, anniversaries and other dates to be sent as text message reminders to their wireless phones.
To promote the launch of the service, Verizon Wireless is providing unlimited text messaging and Internet alerts through January for customers on digital price plans of $35 or higher. Following the promotional period, customers can pay 2 cents to receive and 10 cents to send messages or select bundled plans beginning at $3 per month for 100 messages.
