I looked at this approach a couple of years ago and was unable to find a way
to reliably find the cell provider. At one time, you could identify provider
by the first 3 numbers of the phone which were assigned to specific
providers such 915 (my own number)which was assigned to Nextel; however,
with companies going out of business and user switching providers and taking
their number with them such as me, where the 915 is now T-Mobile, it is
impossible to tell who is the provider, sort of finding a way to access a
directory that list the provide for a particular number, which is what
teleflip.com did.
One workaround would be place the umber on the "to: " filed and then the
number with all the other different sms under "bcc:" and hope that one
reaches the desired number and the rest just bounce harmlessly.I think.
Javier,
Javier Valencia, PE
O: 913-829-0888
H: 913-397-9605
C: 913-915-3137
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of TOM HART
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 9:25 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: send sms messages from RBase
I actually have been doing this for quite some time. Each cell phone
provider has an sms, verizon is
@vtext.com. I created a table for each provider and when my customers enter
their phone number I also have them select their provider. You now have an
email address to send a message like
'[email protected]'. If you emailed thru reports just put in the email.
I will look at my code and post if needed
Tom Hart
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 8:35 AM, Dan Goldberg <[email protected]>
wrote:
I am exploring sending sms messages from RBase to cell phones.
I was wondering if anybody had any experience that they can share.
TIA
Dan Goldberg
