Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2003-02-06 Thread David Holland
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:22:46PM -, David Tully wrote: > You don't necessarily need a direct connection to an SMSC for 1000 messages > a week - you could always send via a mobile phone/modem. Yep, I'm quite comfortable with that method. However, the project I'm looking at has a requirement f

RE: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2003-02-05 Thread kannel
You could try using a company 2sms.com (they have a smsc link) which has lots of ways of getting SMS into their system. I post xml from a php script that processes messages that arrive to kannel. Depends how reliable u need the message delivery to be. I used clickatell for a few days, found them t

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2003-02-05 Thread David Tully
nd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet? > A year ago... > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:50:58PM +, Eric Carlson wrote: > > I installed Kannel way over a year ago

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2003-02-05 Thread David Holland
A year ago... On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:50:58PM +, Eric Carlson wrote: > I installed Kannel way over a year ago in the UK and then queried the > usual suspects trying to find a low cost SMSC. [...] > Is there a decent UK service provider around yet please? I'm hoping things have moved on sin

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Chris Blown
Thanks Carwyn Ok, got you. I wonder if any of our telcos here in Australia support these API... Hmmm, must find out. Now all you UK people can laugh at us Aussies, while the Scandinavians are laughing at you. ;-) Looks like the UK SMSC scene is going quite well from where I am sitting. Chris Bl

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Chris Blown
not text based protocols like http. The SMAP system will address these issues but it's still in draft last time I checked. Chris Blown - Original Message - From: Carwyn T. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:17 PM Subject: Re:

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Chris Blown
> I'm not sure how such a service that you describe is available currently > with SMSCs (if I understood correctly that you mean its a service > provided by the SMSC and not by Kannel) Yeah, of course. Kannel just makes these web service tasks much easier to develop.

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Carwyn T. Edwards
I've been watching this thread for some time now and am amazed at what people think is and isn't available. It is perfectly possible in the UK to get full two way SMPP including ranges of international addresses. The kinds of things that are possible and I have seen done are: - Mobile handse

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 12:31, Aarno Syvänen wrote: > Hi, > > Oded Arbel wrote: > > > > What's wrong with XML over HTTP (otherwise know in the hype scene as > > "web services") ? I know One2One in the UK do this (don't know how much > > it costs). also checkout smsrelay.com. > > BTW - how about wr

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 12:56, Chris Blown wrote: > Well nothings wrong with it, if you want to send the same sms message to > tons of people then its great. > > AFAIK you can't do keyword service type responses like Kannel can do. > Certainly possible though, but your 'sms-as-xml-over-http' servic

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Chris Blown
iginal Message - From: Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Chris Blown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:10 PM Subject: RE: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet? What's wrong with XML over HTTP (otherwise know in the hype scene a

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Aarno Syvänen
Hi, Oded Arbel wrote: > > What's wrong with XML over HTTP (otherwise know in the hype scene as > "web services") ? I know One2One in the UK do this (don't know how much > it costs). also checkout smsrelay.com. > BTW - how about writing an SMSC module for Kannel to use XML over HTTP ? I may add

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Max Hadley
I've been playing with Kannel 1.0.3 as a pure WAP gateway, but I'm becoming intrigued by the idea of SMS services. However, I can't find any simple, comprehensive explanations of what can be done and how. Some of you out there seem to know! I found a piece of shareware called SMSC, which sends

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Steve Kennedy
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:50:58PM +, Eric Carlson wrote: > I installed Kannel way over a year ago in the UK and then queried the > usual suspects trying to find a low cost SMSC. Vodaphone tried to > lease me a Kilostream link at £40,000 pa, BT didn't understand the > concept of an SMSC and O

RE: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-12 Thread Oded Arbel
y, February 12, 2002 2:41 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet? > > > > > > Similar situation over here in Australia, most companies I have talked > > to, are either not sure, say its on the way or say no problems

Re: Is the SMSC scene in the UK any good yet?

2002-02-11 Thread Chris Blown
Similar situation over here in Australia, most companies I have talked to, are either not sure, say its on the way or say no problems "send them to us as xml via http". eerrm ... no thanks. They also charge like a wounded bull. On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 09:50, Eric Carlson wrote: > Hi all, > > I i