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Alternatives to TAP for Outage Alerts?

Posted by Cliff on from the early-warning-systems dept.

anton[1452] asks: "AT&T Wireless has discontinued TAP dialup access to text messaging. I have used this for years to send alerts in the event of network outages. The alternatives they offer are not free and worse, require network connections - making them useless for my needs. Does anyone have a better way to do this without resorting to carrying a separate pager?"

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  1. At&t prepaid phone? by Stubtify · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Could store it away for a rainy day and only use it when your network fails. Wouldn't cost much at all.