To do that, you need to in effect become a licensed mobile operator (perhaps only for data, but nevertheless).
$$$ On 01/19/2010 05:51 PM, C. Savinovich wrote: > Hi Steve, thanks but all Google searches refer me to third party > providers. That is precisely what I am trying to avoid. I want to be > one of them. How do they do it? … I want to contract directly with the > **carrier**. > > CS > > *From:* [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Steve Murphy > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:25 PM > *To:* Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-biz] Anyone knows about wholesale text > messaging contracts? > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:10 PM, C. Savinovich > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, we will be sending about 10 thousand text messages per day through > Clickatell. (From an Asterisk server)... We want to send the messages > directly to the carriers. I am using Kannel (at least I am trying to). At > that volume, there is got to be wholesale contracts available from the > *wireless carriers*, and even sms centers to connect to. I would not think > this could be done with 10 cell phones plugged to the usb ports of the > kannel server. > > Can anyone who knows about this please shed some light :) ? > > > A quick google for "SMS gateway" should give you an instant list of > internet SMS gateways. > I've seen dealers that offer scaled rates; The cost seems to vary > between 2-4 cents per message > at high volume (~10k messages/mo), and 10 cents per message at low > volume. Their gateways vary in what it takes > to send and get messages, but all of them seem pretty workable via maybe > cURL and Asterisk. They offer > redundancy and around the clock availability. > > I've seen some open source to make your own gateway, but I have not yet > been able to > break off some time and find out how you get access to carriers, etc. I > assume the SMS gateways > take care of those issues, and that's why they charge the rates they do. > If you find out more, > let me know! > > murf > > > CS > > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > > > > -- > Steve Murphy > ParseTree Corp > -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC Tel : +1 678-954-0670 Direct : +1 678-954-0671 Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
