These questions are going to be terribly rudimentary because I don’t yet understand some fundamental questions about how Kannel fits in the big picture. I’ve perused the FAQ but not really found answers to these, but feel free to redirect me to somewhere I can find answers.
I’m tasked with finding a way to provide text messages to our Web site users with certain information on request. I’ve read the first 11 chapters of this SMS tutorial: HYPERLINK "http://www.developershome.com/sms/"http://www.developershome.com/sms/ . It seems to imply that we need to either send (1)our messages via a mobile phone or modem, (2) directly by setting up an account with an SMSC, or (3) by paying a service provider on a per-message basis. I infer that Kannel fits into those last two options, and that, although Kannel itself is free, it doesn’t eliminate the need to pay someone for access to an SMSC (either directly to the SMSC or via a service provider). Is this accurate so far? Given that we’d like to find a completely free solution, and that most wireless providers appear to offer free email- or Web-based text messaging to their own customers, it’s hard to see the benefits for us to setting up our own gateway. What are the practical advantages to going with this setup? Is there some volume of outgoing messages at which using each provider’s free interface ceases to be practical? Or is it just the cost in time associated with using all these different email interfaces instead of one common one? Thanks in advance, Philip Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.13.5/988 - Release Date: 9/4/2007 9:14 AM
