SMS group conferencing

3Jam makes it easy to send a text message simultaneously to any number of people, have everyone know who got the message, and where replies go to everyone in the group.

In a write-up on Treonauts, Andrew writes:

"3jam uses patented technology to deliver the first service that provides Treonauts (as well as all other standard cellphone users) the capability to simultaneously broadcast a single private SMS text message to as many people as you like and for any replies to be similarly received by all people in the group.

As it stands today, you could send the same text message ‘outbound’ to multiple recipients without 3jam. However, none of your recipients is able to know who else received the message and their ‘inbound’ replies are limited only to you instead of the whole recipient group.

3jam addresses and solves this by making it easy to start a sort of ‘SMS conferencing’ among a multitude of handsets in which all parties are participants not just the original sender. ...

emily | 9:22 AM | Technology |
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