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 handset sending into an application listening on SMPP (MO -> ESME) and have this reply with a response. Not using sim based solutions either! - Have an application send a message to a handset and have the user reply directly to the application (ESME -> MT). - Full two way Handset to desktop application chat (like ICQ but better) - across mutliple networks. None of this short code stuff. - ESME to Handset traffic at well over 100 messages per second. Carwyn 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' service provider >must be able to accept incoming SMS messages, know who they should be >forwarded to and package up some xml and send it over to your system. Then I >have something that reads this XML answers the request and sends it all >back. > >One example with Kannel is I send the service center an SMS asking it for a >phone number that's in my address book, then sms this number to three of my >friends, all in one hit. Now that's "sms services" > >But yeah, if these types of services are possible over these xml systems, >then an 'xml-over-http-as-SMSC' for Kannel is really not a bad idea. > >Chris Blown >
