Re: SMS Forwarding

[Nikos Balkanas]

Hi,

You contact Rogers Wireless and they give you an account (login, password) 
port & IP. That's all you need to connect. A bit tweaking might be needed 
afterwards. Please read User's Guide.

BR,
Nikos
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Weichert" <mweich...@gmail.com>
To: "Nikos Balkanas" <nbalka...@gmail.com>
Cc: <users@kannel.org>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 3:39 AM
Subject: Re: SMS Forwarding


Thanks Nikos.

Sorry for being a complete n00b, but how do I determine the SMSC
parameters for the carrier I'd like to use? Is this information
published somewhere? As I said, I'd like to use Rogers Wireless

Thanks again,
Mike

2010/6/10 Nikos Balkanas <nbalka...@gmail.com>:
Hi,

Well, I am not exactly Rene, but since he seems to be offline, here you 
go:

You define a group "smsc" in your kannel.conf wherein you describe all
connection and routing parameters. Check the "reroute-smsc-id" option.
Kannel works only with GSM networks, though, not CDMA. For details read 
the
online User's Guide.

BR,
Nikos
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Weichert" <mweich...@gmail.com>
To: "Rene Kluwen" <rene.klu...@chimit.nl>
Cc: <users@kannel.org>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: SMS Forwarding


I suppose a better question would be... how does Kannel connect to an
SMSC? For example, my SMSC would be Rogers Wireless in Canada... but
does Kannel know that?

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Mike Weichert <mweich...@gmail.com>
wrote:

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 <rene.klu...@chimit.nl>
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: users-boun...@kannel.org [mailto:users-boun...@kannel.org] On
Behalf
Of Mike Weichert
Sent: donderdag 10 juni 2010 19:53
To: users@kannel.org
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