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

[Michael]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:24:53 Steve Murphy wrote:
> 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 :) ?

For my low volume SMS requirements I use a Wavecom plugged into a Linux box 
running Kannel.

Two pints about getting an interconnect with a telco:
1. It's an exclusive club - ie: you need to be well resourced (including 
financially)

2. Unless you are very sizeable the rates you will get will often be worse 
then had you been a residential customer using your cellular phone.