In the past, when I have gone to Asia, I’ve had a frustration (one of many) with my US cell phone provider Verizon. Because Verizon is on a CDMA network, it does not natively support international SMS messages. So in order for me to send messages to Rebecca, I had to find a web-based solution or relay a message through someone in the US who has a GSM phone.

This last trip, I decided to try and use Twitter as an SMS gateway to exchange messages with my wife and it worked great…for the most part. The main hiccup being in Taiwan, I was only able to send messages but not receive them. The other being that I didn’t always know my local country number beforehand so I would have to send a message to someone first in order to identify my own number (need to remember to write those down). But that sure beats having to call directly or finding an internet connection to just send a message ping.