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Re: Wired access to SMS?
From: Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 18:15:00 -0600
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:35:37PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
I'm looking for a way to do wireline access to send and receive cellular phone short message service (SMS) messages. Despite all my google-fu, I have had limited luck finding anyone that meets my needs, so I'm hoping someone here has found the path through. My main criteria are: 1. Low quantity, high reliability. I'll want a few dozen phone numbers and effectively I'll be sending to and receiving from phones I own. 2. Wireline delivery to Honolulu and Northern Virginia. Dynamically move numbers between the two locations for failover purposes. 3. U.S. based carrier. Tying in to the SMS system via Europe isn't acceptable to my customer. 4. Solution must reach phones on all U.S. cellular carriers. 5. Price is a very distant fifth criteria to the preceding four.
Avoid Google Voice. I've seen other recommendations on this, and it's horrid. Most solutions are no longer updated, there is no official API from Google, and Google changes their products regularly where stuff breaks. To suggest it as a critical production solution blows my mind. Instead, purchase a cellular USB modem with a standard plan. All 4 major carriers provide APIs to interact with the modems, and you get everything you need. They aren't cheap (something in the neighborhood of $30/month), but they work, they are reliable, and you have a committed telecom corp dedicated to keeping uptime high, and the API up-to-date. -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o
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- Re: Wired access to SMS?, (continued)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? William Herrin (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? Mike Lyon (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? TJ (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? steve pirk [egrep] (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? Bryan Tong (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? William Herrin (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? Ray Van Dolson (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? shawn wilson (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? jamie rishaw (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? William Herrin (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? Seth Mattinen (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? William Herrin (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? Mike Lyon (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired access to SMS? John Levine (Oct 09)
- RE: Wired access to SMS? Nathan Eisenberg (Oct 10)