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Is there any way to test SMS messaging without having a texting plan?
There isn’t any way to setup the equivalent of a mock email server for the purposes of testing an SMS service is there? Are there any other ways to accomplish the task? Perhaps setting up something like a GrandCentral account that can receive text messages?
I am looking to test SMS messages to multiple accounts without having to find multiple people with texting plans and coordinating the effort.
Google now has the answer for which I seek. With the roll-out of their new Google Voice (previously GrandCentral) they added the ability to received text messages to the phone number (which currently is free). While technically somewhat of a text plan, one could theoretically sign up for a few accounts and be able to test multiple phone numbers.
http://www.google.com/voice/
Update (Nov 2010): Perhaps an even better way to do this now is to use either Tropo (tropo.com) or Twilio (twilio.com). Both of them offer low cost SMS messaging and Tropo is free for development. I’ve been using Tropo and it’s very quick and easy to setup and write and code for.