More variety

[augustajune]

Title
More variety

Short, concise description of the idea
I was wondering if you could add more carriers to you TXT selection

Full description of the idea
I have Cricket and I cant get live journal updates. I think if you made your selection bigger it will be more popular and more people would use it.
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[lady_angelina]

Sure. I don't use Cricket, but it seems to be a fairly widely used carrier. It probably wouldn't be possible nor feasible to include every single carrier there is out there, but accommodating at least the bigger names like Cricket makes sense to me.

[the_cynic]

Cricket is a widely used carrier because they don't own their own infrastructure but lease from existing carriers. So Cricket in Chicago may use Sprint's backbone but in LA they may use Verizon. Because of that, it is not feasible to add support for Cricket service to the TxtLJ product.

Other carriers may be possible, depending on demand.

[lady_angelina]

Ah, gotcha. I didn't know about that (just only that there seems to be about as many Cricket stores here in town as there are Walgreens XD ). Thanks for explaining this!

I wonder if it'd be possible for the user to list their service as Cricket's backbone provider in their area, or does it have to be directly from the service provider in question in order for TxtLJ to work?

[azurelunatic]

I remember setting up my Cricket phone to get the texts from the profile (but that's slightly different from TxtLJ; I think Cricket did not allow texting to shortcodes at that time, so I couldn't do that), using the settings that I sort of crawled around and discovered by trial and error; I could see setting up a FAQ or howto (depending on how specific) on discovering your service provider's undocumented to/from email addresses (pics and texts may come from a different address, isn't that fun).

I could also potentially see explicitly listing some of the providers who appear to be their own outfit but piggyback on other carriers and vary by territory, with dates of last poking.

But those are more docs territory.