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

[Geraint Lee]

i'm pretty sure 10,000 is a very low volume to be considering going direct
with carriers, i'd imagine you're going to need to be sending a lot more
than that for it to be worth it. i wrote a php system a while ago which used
to pump out over 1000 messages per minute and we were using a third party to
deliver them.

2010/1/19 C. Savinovich <c.savinovich at itntelecom.com>

>  Hi Steve, thanks but all Google searches refer me to third party
> providers.  That is precisely what I am trying to avoid.  I want to be one
> of them.  How do they do it? … I want to contract directly with the **
> carrier**.
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> CS
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> *From:* asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:
> asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve Murphy
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:25 PM
> *To:* Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-biz] Anyone knows about wholesale text messaging
> contracts?
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> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:10 PM, C. Savinovich <
> c.savinovich at itntelecom.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Can anyone who knows about this please shed some light :) ?
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> murf
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> CS
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