What are Alarms?
Alarms are triggered by events such as a particular fund price
change or a percentage of portfolio threshold being met or
exceeded. Once you have setup the alarms for your clients
alerts can be received by your PC, digital cell phone, two-way
pager and/or personal digital assistant (PDA). Alerts notify
and update you on the funds in your client's portfolio anytime
- anywhere.
How can I receive
Alerts?
You can receive alerts on any of the following devices:
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PC: an Internet e-mail address.
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Digital Cell phone: a digital cell phone with one-way
or two-way text message or short messaging service (SMS)
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To ensure that your cell phone can receive alerts, please
contact your cellular service provider. Once you have established
that your cell phone can receive text message alerts, you
will need to set up your e-mail address for receiving text
message alerts. You can receive text message alerts via any
of the carriers listed below.
Two-way pager, e.g. RIM Blackberry device: e-mail address
specific to your device.
PDA: desktop e-mail address in most cases. If you have a wireless
modem PDA, please use your particular device's e-mail address.
What is my e-mail
address for my digital cell phone?
The following is a list of carriers that offer text messaging
in Canada and the format of your digital cell phone e-mail
address for receiving text message alerts. Please note that
the address for your cell phone is comprised of your 10 digit
phone number including area code without any dashes or spaces
and the domain specific to your carrier.
Bell Mobility post paid: 10digitnumber@txt.bellmobility.ca
Bell Mobility prepaid (Solo): 10digitnumber@txt.mysolo.ca
Aliant (NBTel, MTT, NewTel and Island Tel): 10digitnumber@wirefree.informe.ca
Fido: 10digitnumber@fido.ca
Rogers AT&T Wireless: 10digitnumber@pcs.rogers.com
SaskTel Mobility: 10digitnumber@pcs.sasktelmobility.com
TELUS Mobility: 10digitnumber@msg.telus.com
How can I test
to see whether my digital cell phone can receive alerts?
You can verify your digital cell phone's address by using
your desktop e-mail program to send a message to your digital
cell phone's address.
What are the costs
of receiving alerts on my digital cell phone?
You will be charged a fee for receiving text message alerts
to your digital cell phone. Please see your service provider's
web site for more details or contact your service provider
directly. A typical fee might be 10 cents per text message,
although there are many volume pricing packages in Canada.
Can I have
the same type of alert delivered to two different addresses?
Yes: Simply log into the www.sterlinginfinet.com site as a
CLIENT and click on Change Password/Email and fill in the
box named Wireless E-Mail with your Wireless E-mail Address.
For information on setting up you clients alarms please refer
to Dan Hallett's article, Portfolio Building Toolkit For Financial
Advisors dated October 2001 or follow the link on our Accounts
web page.
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