[asterisk-biz] Anyone knows about wholesale text messaging contracts?

[Steve Murphy]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:10 PM, C. Savinovich
<c.savinovich at itntelecom.com>wrote:

> Hi, we will be sending about 10 thousand text messages per day through
> Clickatell. (From an Asterisk server)... We want to send the messages
> directly to the carriers. I am using Kannel (at least I am trying to).  At
> that volume, there is got to be wholesale contracts available from the
> *wireless carriers*, and even sms centers to connect to.  I would not think
> this could be done with 10 cell phones plugged to the usb ports of the
> kannel server.
>
> Can anyone who knows about this please shed some light :) ?
>

A quick google for "SMS gateway" should give you an instant list of internet
SMS gateways.
I've seen dealers that offer scaled rates; The cost seems to vary between
2-4 cents per message
at high volume (~10k messages/mo), and 10 cents per message at low volume.
Their gateways vary in what it takes
to send and get messages, but all of them seem pretty workable via maybe
cURL and Asterisk. They offer
redundancy and around the clock availability.

I've seen some open source to make your own gateway, but I have not yet been
able to
break off some time and find out how you get access to carriers, etc. I
assume the SMS gateways
take care of those issues, and that's why they charge the rates they do. If
you find out more,
let me know!

murf


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