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
