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Sam -----Original Message----- From: Steve Totaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:02 AM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] 8 ports GSM PCI Card or Gateway Steve Kennedy wrote: > 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 > > What are the limitations of a SIM as far as writes? Is there some sort of hard number? Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ --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 _______________________________________________ --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
