Free SMS <-> IM/Email gateways?
I have a phone that runs Windows Mobile (6), with an unlimited data plan (so I am capable of sending/receiving email, and installing IM clients if I want). As such, SMS seems a bit like overkill, and I have not subscribed to an SMS service on my phone.
I would like to be able to find a free gateway between SMS and IM (and/or email) in order to be able to send/receive messages to folks who are limited to SMS, or come up with a solution I could deploy myself that would do the same thing.
My resources are as follows:
Cell phone w/ WM6 (previously mentioned)
DSL connection at home, with DynDNS autoupdates
Local webserver (linux)
Local mailserver (linux)
Asterisk server with Linksys SPA3102 (for POTS integration )
Local voice/data modem
http://www.textmarks.com/ seems like one way to allow folks with nothing but SMS to contact the rest of the world (and I could see how to easily adapt that into an email or IM gateway so I could receive such messages on my phone).
I don't have any great ideas for outbound - maybe some sort of solution using TAP through Asterisk (and/or the modem). Sending to short codes (and common short codes) would be icing on the cake, but I'm not expecting any miracles.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
-Jon
I would like to be able to find a free gateway between SMS and IM (and/or email) in order to be able to send/receive messages to folks who are limited to SMS, or come up with a solution I could deploy myself that would do the same thing.
My resources are as follows:
Cell phone w/ WM6 (previously mentioned)
DSL connection at home, with DynDNS autoupdates
Local webserver (linux)
Local mailserver (linux)
Asterisk server with Linksys SPA3102 (for POTS integration )
Local voice/data modem
http://www.textmarks.com/ seems like one way to allow folks with nothing but SMS to contact the rest of the world (and I could see how to easily adapt that into an email or IM gateway so I could receive such messages on my phone).
I don't have any great ideas for outbound - maybe some sort of solution using TAP through Asterisk (and/or the modem). Sending to short codes (and common short codes) would be icing on the cake, but I'm not expecting any miracles.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
-Jon
ASKER
So, are the interconnect fees the way carriers try to justify the ridiculous costs associated with SMS? Just wondering...
In any case, are you suggesting using a TAP solution? If so, do you have an easily accessible list of TAP numbers/providers?
In any case, are you suggesting using a TAP solution? If so, do you have an easily accessible list of TAP numbers/providers?
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No, no - I wasn't talking about TAPI, but TAP (Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol). We used to use TAP to page admins like myself when I worked at an ISP - TAP uses a modem to establish a data connection to a TAP-compliant phone number at a specific provider (ie our pager provider when I worked at the ISP), and sends the message over the modem using the TAP protocol. Also of interest might be SNPP - I think we were getting confused because our acronyms are only differ by one letter (smpp, snpp, tap, tapi ;-)...
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
-Jon
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
-Jon
ASKER
I'm thinking there were well-meant contributions, but nothing conclusive. I'm willing to speculate that currently nothing exists to satisfy my initial requirement of bidirectional communication.
I'm not sure if this is PAQ-worthy. I guess I'd suggest PAQ, and I don't care too much about what happens to the pts.
Cheers,
-Jon
I'm not sure if this is PAQ-worthy. I guess I'd suggest PAQ, and I don't care too much about what happens to the pts.
Cheers,
-Jon
ASKER
Sometimes the answer is "it doesn't exist" ;-)
READY MY POSTS THERE- YOU MIGHT FIND WHAT YOU WANT. But basically - trying to get a carrier to push a free SMS is always going to be near impossible.
Carriers have inter-connect fees with each other and they wont want to hand off a message for free.