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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sam Tam</b> <<a href="mailto:no-junk@cyber-telecom.net">no-junk@cyber-telecom.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello,<br>We do GSM Gateway that has a SMS port for only £99 GBP per unit.<br><br>For more info please visit
<a href="http://cyber-telecom.net">cyber-telecom.net</a><br><br>Sam<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Steve Totaro [mailto:<a href="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com">stotaro@totarotechnologies.com</a>]<br>Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:02 AM
<br>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] 8 ports GSM PCI Card or Gateway<br><br>Steve Kennedy wrote:<br>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:29:43PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
<br>><br>><br>>> Would this work in the US? I want to use it primarily to send SMS. It<br>>> seems that all of the SMS relay companies charge too much. It would be<br>>> great to stick my T-Mobile SIM into something like this, route through
<br>>> asterisk to Kanal. Unlimited SMS is $14.99/mo with T-Mob.<br>>> Anyone know what could accomplish this?<br>>><br>><br>> You can get a Siemens TC/MC35 GSM terminal and they'll do SMS quite well
<br>> (only one SIM per unit), Nokia make one as do Falcom and others.<br>><br>> I think Junghams make a 4 port card.<br>><br>> You'll be limited by throughput on the units though as they can only<br>> handle a certain number of SMS per minute (probably 10 to 20). You also
<br>> have to beware that SIMs have a limited numbers of writes and will stop<br>> working after a while (some terminals allow "sim buffering off" which<br>> will hopefully use the terminal's memory to store SMSs).
<br>><br>> Utilising a gateway (like Kannel - note spelling) and a SMPP or equiv<br>> protocol may give you higher rates, but there'll be a per SMS charge.<br>> The phone networks I believe use AA19 agreements for SMS termination
<br>> (well in the GSM world) and that's a set termination rate between<br>> operators - somewhere between 2 and 3.5p (4 and 7cents), but diffificult<br>> to find out, unless you're an operator.<br>><br>
><br>><br>> Steve<br>><br>><br><br>What are the limitations of a SIM as far as writes? Is there some sort<br>of hard number?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by
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