Web page mobile operators have traditionally been almost the most visited resources on the network. All thoughtfully examine tariff plans and read the news? Of course not, the reason for the extraordinary popularity - an opportunity to send free SMS-message. It turns out that this seemingly simple service is implemented by different operators in different ways, and in some cases we are faced with surprises. 
Just numbers
The maximum number of sending a single message is well-known characters: 70 characters Unicode (in our case, Cyrillic), or 160 Roman letters. Even if the only Russian letters all the message is sent in Unicode, and every 70 characters billed as a separate SMS-message. Send free messages pasted does not allow any one of Moscow sites "Big Three", the only exception - the program Beeonline Express, and then sent through it, parts of "gluing" can be considered only conditionally. But even these meager 70 characters (seven to nine words), we usually pay is not everything. The most "greedy" and simultaneously the most "generous" was the site MegaFon-Moscow: 50 letters available to everyone with a public page and a full-fledged 70 letters to its subscribers (while sending out a service guide).All we are almost resigned to the necessity to send a message to solve ingenious code in the image and enter them in deciphering the special field. This is to prevent the use of websites as gateways, it is difficult to oppose. But sometimes infuriates catchy offered to guess the combination. When sending an SMS service guide (Megaphone) and Internet Assistant (MTS) did not have to guess, the site will still have to Beeline. On the other hand, the numbers on bilaynovskih pictures much easier to discern.
The table below - SMS-resource settings Moscow websites operators "Big Three".
| MTS | Beeline | MegaFon | |
| Single resource for their (registered) users | is | No | is |
| The cost of sending SMS (public page) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The cost of sending SMS (for subscribers), rub. VAT per 1 SMS | 1.35 | 0 | 0 |
| Sending Multiple SMS in "gluing" (public page) | No | No | No |
| Sending Multiple SMS in "gluing" (for subscribers) | yes | No | No |
| Number of Latin characters in an SMS (public page) | 132 | 156 | 110 |
| Number of Russian characters in an SMS (public page) | - | 52 | 50 |
| Number of Latin characters in an SMS (for subscribers) | 160 | 156 | 160 |
| Number of Russian characters in an SMS (for subscribers) | 67 | 52 | 70 |
MTS
The main feature of public pages - the inability to send a Russian-language SMS, a mandatory forced conversion in the transliteration. Information about this particular site is not, but often enjoying a certain date. Also there is no limiter, and even information about the maximum possible number of characters (132), which is inconvenient. In the case of "brute force" letters message not going away, and a red line with a proposal to reduce the number of characters to the maximum, then that we learn about the limit of 132 characters.But at the end of each SMS system will automatically append IP-address of the sender.When you send SMS from Internet Assistant (formerly ICS) is no problem with the Russian language there is no switch, Cyrillic / translit present. Long messages are automatically split into several standard and sent in the form of "glue" for each standard SMS-message with the sender's account is written off 1.3546 USD. Previously, the system automatically finishing sender's phone number in the message body, now made easier: the phone number in international format substituted in the "From" and when receiving SMS-ki phone pulls name from adresbuka. Of course, if this phone number adresbuke recorded. All is good, but the system does not "+" before the number "7", and trying to answer a SMS message sent is charged, but leaves "to nowhere." Such is the unpleasant feature of the paid service.
But pleased providence MTS in part protect its subscribers from spam. For the first violation culprit is fined at $ 59, the second - for $ 118, while the third has paid to send SMS from the site for this subscriber will be blocked.
Beeline
Page to send SMS from the site Beeline is a fragment of the once popular portal Beonline. Sending an SMS to everyone and to registered users differs mainly by the fact that the registered subscribers of Beeline can specify message delivery time. On the public page Beeline, in contrast to the pages of the MTS and MegaFon, this function is not provided. There is an interesting opportunity to get an anonymous SMS: Beeline subscribers can register on the portal and "tied" to her phone number a unique nickname. Later this nickname to be given away instead of a phone number, sent from a site on such a nickname SMS will reach. For registered users of notebook and provides some useful additions, including the ability to get answers to your phone.
MegaFon-Moscow
Public page for sending SMS pleases functions Delayed and switch Cyrillic / transliteration. But the upset length limit: 50 Russian letters, or 110 (!) Latin. More recently, the body of message to be sent forcibly added to advertising services of MegaFon, possibly, severe restrictions on the number of characters have been caused by the need to make room for commercials. Now just sent a test SMS advertising was not - a trifle, but nice.Even nicer if it is not random luck, and the practice of advertising inserts decided to give up. If, indeed, refused, the next logical move - increase max. number of characters sent from the site in the SMS.As for sending an SMS from a service guide - would be happy to criticize, but not for that. The maximum number of characters, the switch Latin / transliteration, no advertising or unnecessary overhead. Sending SMS from the site carefully arranged as if the phone user. Responses to the sender's phone revenue without losses, and received such SMS are not even aware that the message is sent from the site.
Alternatives
Free alternatives to sending an SMS from a site not so much. Special programs periodically appear, but work extremely unstable, or after a certain time cease to work altogether. "Special" Web page for sending SMS to anywhere, in fact, represent collected in one place links to relevant web-sites of different operators. While there are paid services found very interesting product. For example, one resource allows you to send SMS-message with an arbitrary return address: cup your single word "Vasya", even though the phone number "beloved" boss. Delivery mechanism of SMS also raises questions as to the detail of these messages are missing.Of the additional facilities necessary to mention the popular TV program Mobile Balance, which allows you to send SMS with one click go directly to that page the desired operator. And the phone number for the copy / paste lovingly displayed in the header and in the case with MegaFon is already entered in the appropriate field.