usenet@sausagefans.com declared for all the world to hear...
> Three still have a very limited range of phones don't they?

It's getting better.

> I was
> specifically looking for a system that would allow emails to a certain
> address to be pushed to the phone which would then allow me to reply at
> reasonable cost.

Blackberry would certainly facilitate that, but then so would any POP3
capable phone set to auto-check every 5 minutes or so.
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Regards
Jon