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

[Alex Balashov]

To do that, you need to in effect become a licensed mobile operator 
(perhaps only for data, but nevertheless).

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On 01/19/2010 05:51 PM, C. Savinovich wrote:

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