On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:50:47PM -0600, Baden de Bari wrote: > Obviously there are advantages to having a longcode (w/ a GSM modem) - > arguments for both?
Well, if you want to be running a mobile service that actually has a chance of making money, a shortcode sponsored by a mobile carrier is the simplest way to do it. ;) The mobile carrier can give you a share of the extra revenue that they charge for a mobile originated premium service. They can also do the necessary accounting for mobile terminated messages, and automatically bill subscribers who receive such specially marked MT messages. Downside: requires negotiation with one or more mobile carriers, and usually specific to the mobile carriers you run the service on only. It's not the kind of thing which you can deploy on short notice. Obviously, unless you somehow obtain funding more creatively (i.e. find some other way of billing for use rather than via a telco's billing infrastructure), running a mobile service off a GSM modem will be a sink, not a source of income, no matter what you do. It is very useful for testing purposes, and for mobile services that are not designed to make money (e.g. a network event notification service, or a unified intra-organizational messaging system). -- No fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can preserve a life beyond the grave... the whole temple of man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/
