On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Karl Fife wrote: > We have a number of DID's that do the standard VoIP tricks: ringing > multiple locations, findme-followme etc. What is happening more and > more is that customers call those DID numbers, and draw the reasonable > conclusion that they are calling mobile numbers because they literally > can HEAR that the called party is on a mobile. Consequently many of > those customers draw the conclusion that they can safely send SMS's to > those DID numbers. Naturally the SMS messages disappear into the ether. > It occurrs to me that relaying SMS messages following dialplan logic may > become an increasingly common objective. > > I say the SMS messages 'naturally' disappear but maybe I'm just ignorant > to this topic because it has not been important to us in the past.
Er, they don't dissapear for me. I send a TXT to a landline, the phone rings and there is a text to speech robot which reads it out to you, or, you can register to not have that happen, and then it sends it to a device which decodes the tones and puts it on the phone display. (And by a similar method you can send TXTs from a landline phone that has the right facilities) If you don't answer, it tries a few more times, or you can call the number and it'll speak it back to you. Don't you have that facility? Maybe it depends on country and telco. > Currently we routinely SEND SMS's from Asterisk triggered by other > dialplan events. So far we've never needed to RELAY from one DID to > another. Are terrestrial carriers even presented with SMS messages? Is > anyone using Asterisk to relay SMS messages? The possibilities probably depend on the country you're in.. Gordon _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
