Re: Wired access to SMS?

["steve pirk [egrep]" <steve () pirk com>]

Have you looked at Google Voice much? I have mine set up to SMS all my
devices, including email delivery, and can enable/disable devices as
needed. The big benefit, is that I have an inbox full of all my old inbound
and outbound text messages.

It might be that I am missing a key element, but it looks like you want a
virtual (VoIP) SMS number, and be able to decide which devices in the US
receive the messages.
On Oct 9, 2012 12:56 PM, "Lyle Giese" <lyle () lcrcomputer net> wrote:

> On 10/09/12 14:35, William Herrin wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I can consider Internet based systems where the provider uses U.S.
> > based facilities and ties in to a U.S. phone network, provided that my
> > standards of reliability and redundancy are met by their
> > infrastructure.
> >
> > Alternately, I can also consider a wireless carrier that can provide
> > two SIM-based phones with the same phone number for sending and
> > receiving SMS messages. I'd put the sims in a pair of modems and
> > manage deduplication of the received messages in software.
> >
> >
> > Has anybody had any luck with this kind of requirement? Which vendors
> > should I talk to and who at the vendor?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill Herrin
> >
> >
> >  If these are your phones, you will be controlling the carrier.  If they
> are all one carrier, you can find out how to send to that carrier.  For
> other uses where you don't control the carrier, it becomes a nightmare and
> where you may want to get a service provider to do that for you.
>
> Most carriers have a way to send messages directly to phones and I use a
> phone from one specific carrier that has access via modems(using TAP
> protocol and I use qpage(www.qpage.org)).  You can also use qpage via a
> public(but carrier specific) snpp server, but I have not had a need for
> that as I need/want off Internet delivery of messages to the carrier's
> network.
>
> On the expensive side, lookup 'sms short code' and you will see
> information on how that works and more info on service providers in this
> area.
>
> Lyle Giese
> LCR Computer Services, Inc.