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

[Jarrod Lash]

SMS messages are generally sent over the SS7 network.

The online providers take your message via their apis and drop them to
ss7 links with the legacy telecom carriers.

For in depth reading check out:
http://www.ncs.gov/library/tech_bulletins/2003/tib_03-2.pdf

and google -> sms ss7

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Jarrod Lash, <jarrod at fed-com.com>
Federated Communications, LLC.
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:10 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 :) ?
>
> CS
>
>
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