Oops, I believe we experienced 10 outbound SMS per minute, not per second. Whichever it was, it was a barrier for our application.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sky (Jim Schuyler, PhD) —The future has arrived, and the label says “some assembly required.” Blog: http://blog.red7.com/ Phone: +1.415.759.7337 PGP Keys: http://web.red7.com/pgp On Jan 2, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Sky (Jim Schuyler) <s...@red7.com> wrote: > I have found email-to-SMS gateways work very well in the US. There were > hiccups initially (10 years ago), but now they are rapid and delivery is > reliable. For medium-volume, I like it that they are free to the sender. > > Yes, you have to ask each recipient in advance who their carrier is, in order > to correctly address the message. I have not found any automated solution > that “discovers” the carrier corresponding to a phone number. > > I have also found that outgoing SMS (was) is limited to about 10 messages per > second by some US carriers, so be aware of this if you are attempting to send > via an actual phone connected to a computer. This was true more than 5 years > ago, which is my last datapoint. Because of the way SMS is actually carried > on the cell network, this may in fact be a limitation of the available SMS > bandwidth for a single phone. That’s why we switched over to email-to-SMS > years ago. > > -Sky > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Sky (Jim Schuyler, PhD) > —The future has arrived, and the label says “some assembly required.” > PGP Keys: http://web.red7.com/pgp > > > > > > > > > On Jan 2, 2015, at 7:19 AM, Nathan of Guardian <nat...@guardianproject.info> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Richard Brooks wrote: >>>> Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up >>>> (or using) an Internet to SMS interface... >>> >>> What about using an Android phone as the gateway device/SMS sender? >>> There are a lot of solutions out there for that, and experience in this >>> community deploying them. >>> >>> http://smssync.ushahidi.com for example >> >> Here are a few more examples: >> >> https://github.com/anjlab/android-sms-gateway >> https://github.com/niryariv/KalSMS >> >> All in all, if your volume is not crazy high, it is the easiest way to >> support pretty much any network in the world, as long as you have a >> place to keep a phone safe and charged in the local area. >> >> >> -- >> Nathan of Guardian >> nat...@guardianproject.info >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of >> list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> compa...@stanford.edu. >> > > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. > -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
