Hi Rene, Thanks for your help.
How do I go about getting a DID associated with Kannel? When Kannel performs the forward, do I need to know anything other than the DID I forward the message forwarded to? Thanks, Mike On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Rene Kluwen <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure, this is very well possible with Kannel. > Your Asterisk server won't help you very much, but Kannel is the only thing > you need for this. > Which country should the local DID be in? There's two options: Purchase a > DID via an sms aggregrator. Or hook up a cellphone or cellular modem with a > local SIM card in it. > To relay the sms messages you have the same options and depending on the > country of the destination numbers, one of those two options is the > cheapest. > > One small disadvantage: If you are doing the same trick with phone calls via > your Asterisk server, probably you cannot use the same number to dial and to > send sms. > > == Rene > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Mike Weichert > Sent: donderdag 10 juni 2010 19:53 > To: [email protected] > Subject: SMS Forwarding > > Hi, > > I'm wondering if I could somehow use Kannel for SMS forwarding. > > For my company, all of our cell phones have an SMS plan that allows > them to receive SMS messages internationally for free, but only send > SMS messages locally. However, there are two international numbers > that we want the ability to send SMS messages to. > > What I was hoping to achieve is something similar to the following: > - Purchase a DID that will be local for all of our cell phones > - The DID will be terminated with a Kannel gateway - meaning that when > a message is sent to the DID, it will go through the Kennel gateway > - The Kannel gateway will then send the SMS to a specified > international number, that would not have been possible for the cell > phone originally > > Is this possible? What sort of pieces do I need to get together. We > have an Asterisk server for our VoIP/Telephony needs that we can use > to help achieve this. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Mike > > > >
