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
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Q:So, are the interconnect fees the way carriers try to justify the ridiculous costs associated with SMS? Just wondering...
A: Hell yes. SMS was originally a signalling channel, and wasnt designed for its current use. Some guys worked out you could message over it, and SMS was born. The interconnect fees are just a revenue raising tool. You can see this by the differences in sending charges for SMS in different countries. For example its only a penny a message in some Asian countries.
TAP solution. The Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) is a Microsoft Windows API, which provides computer telephony integration and enables PCs running Microsoft Windows to use telephone services. Different versions of TAPI are available on different versions of Windows.
This will still involve you having to 'connect' to your carriers SMSC (switching centre) or access point. So you WILL NOT avoid charges. However, a TAPI or suitable smpp connection will act as an effective connection/delivery mechanism.
If you were to use a celluar approach, so that being a GSM/Mobile phone terminal (http://www.mobiledata.com
If you use a telephone line (sending) then you can push out more SMS per minute.
Q:If so, do you have an easily accessible list of TAP numbers/providers
A: No, and each carrier will have their own access point and charges.
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
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
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by: Emredrum76Posted on 2008-10-03 at 00:29:25ID: 22631764
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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.