Bruce, If you have the money and you have a brother in-law in the Rogers family, you could do this :).
You will need to interconnect to the canadian SS7 network and also have an agreement in place to communicate with all the mobile phone operators through a sub-layer of the SS7 protocol. In Canada, your SS7 A-links will cost you $62,000 in setup fees and about $2,000.00/month each (with dedicated T1 connections). You will need 2 links for redundancy. Some CLEC providers was able to get reduced setup fees by using F-links through another existing CLEC. You would also need to pay for SMS messages sent and receive according to your agreement in place with all mobile phone operators. In my opinion, if the price would make sense, all CLEC would offer this service, but none of them do. So I assume the mobile phone operators do not want to inter-connect with other networks for this service. Maybe Bill Sandiford from Telnet Communications can comment on this as he went through the CLEC and SS7 integration with his MetaSwitch phone system. Stephan Monette Unlimitel Inc. On 2010-01-18, at 7:32 PM, Bruce N wrote: > Thanks for the input Stephan. > > I was thinking something more along the lines of becoming an SMS provider as > in installing an SMS gateway. Usually there is a Gateway number setup in each > cell phone or at the providers end or on the SIM card that allows for SMS to > be sent to a specific number (which is the SMS gateway) and then it's sent to > destination. I know that it's a big source of revenue for GSM providers but I > was wondering if there was a method to use that facility to send those SMS to > a different gateway which could be the Asterisk server with the SS7 > connection? > > Do I make any sense? > > Thanks, > Bruce > > > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:29:30 -0500 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] To Asterisk Gurus + Service Providers > > > > Bruce, > > > > Some vendor offers GSM cards for your Asterisk system. You could send and > > receive SMS messages through this type of cards. I don't know if Asterisk > > supports SMS messages from GSM cards. > > > > Stephan Monette > > Unlimitel Inc. > > > > On 2010-01-18, at 7:17 PM, Bruce N wrote: > > > > > > > > Apparently SS7 is more of a vendor technology than an end user and > > > switches change to PRI before delivering to end users. However, the only > > > thing I am interested in is receiving SMS on an Asterisk box and not even > > > sending. Maybe through the D-Channel ;) > > > Or should one get an SS7 connection and do you have to be a CLEC for that? > > > Providers, shed some light please :) > > > -Bruce > > > > > >> From: [email protected] > > >> To: [email protected] > > >> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:10:47 -0500 > > >> CC: [email protected] > > >> Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] To Asterisk Gurus + Service Providers > > >> > > >> I tried sms via Pri but never got it to work. > > >> > > >> Sent from my iPhone > > >> > > >> On Jan 18, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Bruce N <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >>> > > >>> Hi Guys, > > >>> What does it take to have your own SMS gateway? I understand that > > >>> it's a feature of SS7 and wondering if that is something that can be > > >>> done over a T1/PRI. > > >>> There is the libss7 for Asterisk but wondering if that is only for > > >>> telco providers and really useless for the rest of us. > > >>> Regards,Bruce > > >>> _________________________________________________________________ > > >>> Say Happy New Year with Messenger for Mobile. > > >>> http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9706117 > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >
