e2text.net email to text service links the desktop with any mobile phone on any network.

All you need to do is type your email into your normal email client — Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, Novell Groupwise and most others — and the email will appear on the recipient's mobile as a text message.

Then, if they need to reply, they simply enter their own text message and send it back to the number they received it from, and it will appear on your desktop as a new email.

e2text.net email to text service works with all GSM and GPRS mobile phones.

If they've got a mobile capable of text messaging, you can email them direct.

This means the service is ideal for field workers, sales teams and support crews, health and social workers — any occasion in which you need to get in touch with someone on the road.

What's more, the low cost of text messaging means that even your most urgent message is cost-effective.

Your field workers don't need their laptop with them in order to keep in touch, and if it's you in the field, you just need to set up a forwarder on your office email address to get all your emails on your mobile, the instant they arrive.