On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:29:43PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: > Would this work in the US? I want to use it primarily to send SMS. It > seems that all of the SMS relay companies charge too much. It would be > great to stick my T-Mobile SIM into something like this, route through > asterisk to Kanal. Unlimited SMS is $14.99/mo with T-Mob. > Anyone know what could accomplish this?
You can get a Siemens TC/MC35 GSM terminal and they'll do SMS quite well (only one SIM per unit), Nokia make one as do Falcom and others. I think Junghams make a 4 port card. You'll be limited by throughput on the units though as they can only handle a certain number of SMS per minute (probably 10 to 20). You also have to beware that SIMs have a limited numbers of writes and will stop working after a while (some terminals allow "sim buffering off" which will hopefully use the terminal's memory to store SMSs). Utilising a gateway (like Kannel - note spelling) and a SMPP or equiv protocol may give you higher rates, but there'll be a per SMS charge. The phone networks I believe use AA19 agreements for SMS termination (well in the GSM world) and that's a set termination rate between operators - somewhere between 2 and 3.5p (4 and 7cents), but diffificult to find out, unless you're an operator. Steve -- NetTek Ltd UK mob +44-(0)7775 755503 UK +44-(0)20 79932612 / US +1-(310)8577715 / Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 Skype/GoogleTalk/AIM/Gizmo/Mac stevekennedyuk / MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
