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Arne K. Haaje
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On Dienstag, Februar 4, 2003, at 10:48 Uhr, Arne K. Haaje wrote:
Andreas Fink wrote:
On Dienstag, Februar 4, 2003, at 10:14 Uhr, Arne K. Haaje wrote:
Andreas Fink wrote:
On Dienstag, Februar 4, 2003, at 08:33 Uhr, Dziugas Baltrunas
wrote:
Hi,
I think this patch is very useful (for me too), but I would like to
ask,
should there be operator permission to set ANY short number as the
number
of the sender? and if so, what is the difference between
'shortnumber' and
'from' number? because, for example, SMPP (if operator permits)
allows to
set any number, iregarding of it's lenght, using, for example,
the same
'from' variable in send-sms.
I don't understand what's the issue here. If you send the number
as 123 it arrives on the phone as 123, if you send it as +123 it
will arrive as +123. So is this not good enough??
Not it looks like the operators MC adds the + sign even when sending
just 123.
The specs state that there are two optional (none mandatory) sender
parameters - originator address and alphanumeric originator address.
Without using the patch all numerical values in the 'from=' field
will be sent as originator address. The operator will/may prepend
the pluss sign, thus ruining the ability to answer directly.
What the patch does is just that it treats all numerical 'from='
fields up to shortnumber= digits as an alphanumeric sender. This
avoids the MC prepending the pluss sign. So if shortnumber=4 -
from=2030 will be received without the pluss sign.
Well then its an alphanumeric sender. This is not good because the end user will not be able to use the "reply" function.
No, it works! We have tested on both Nokia and Ericsson phones, and it works just fine.
well then nokia again makes something really weird and the number is not sent really alphanumeric.
My recommendation would be to throw away a CIMD SMSC and replace it with something serious ;-). CIMD is very limited in many ways. (Nokia is now going to love me for this...). In our case we where not able to set any originator as our originator was automatically prepended with the user ID (which was a short id).
We have the same situation with one operator where we are using MT billing. This patch would not make a difference with that operator. However, we have a large account with another operator (no billing) sending bulk sms, sms from web, and other content. Here we are using this patch setting the sender to our shortnumber with the first operator. This allows the user to reply directly to our services on that operator.
BTW, you replied directly to me (outside the list) so I reply privately. If you think the discussion relevant (I do) to the list perhaps you could forward or continue there?.
just a mistake... feel free to forward.
Andreas Fink
Global Networks Switzerland AG
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