On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Drew Gibson wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: >> 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. >> >> 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, > >> Don't you have that facility? >> >> Maybe it depends on country and telco. > > Err, Gordon, you must be in a country from the 21st century.
The UK, and while BT do have their faults, they do have some handy features... > North America is just beginning to emerge from the mobile Stone Age. > Some people have heard of text messaging but most think you have to pay > Blackberry to send emails. I'm sorry. Keep banging the rocks together guys... Last time I visited I was frustrated by the lack of TXTability - too many standards, too many carriers not giving you the full service... The weird thing is that if you have a more or less universal TXTing coverage it would literally take off overnight. It did in the UK when the 4 main operators got together and let TXTs pass between then. I think the latest stats are something stupid like over a billion TXTs a week in the UK now... http://uk.gizmodo.com/2007/11/06/one_billion_text_messages_sent.html However, I've just tried with my VoIP carrier and they just vanish. Might drop them an email and ask about it... > I ran into the issues Karl mentions when trying to txt our ISP contact > during our office move. > Can anyone clarify how SMS to non-mobile numbers are generally handled > in North America? > Is it possible to have SMS delivered direct to your landline DIDs? Then > have Asterisk relay it to the actual mobile DID. If not, there's got to be a "killer app" in there somewhere if you can figure out a revenue generation mechanism... 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
