<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:10 PM, C. Savinovich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.savinovich@itntelecom.com">c.savinovich@itntelecom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi, we will be sending about 10 thousand text messages per day through<br>
Clickatell. (From an Asterisk server)... We want to send the messages<br>
directly to the carriers. I am using Kannel (at least I am trying to). At<br>
that volume, there is got to be wholesale contracts available from the<br>
*wireless carriers*, and even sms centers to connect to. I would not think<br>
this could be done with 10 cell phones plugged to the usb ports of the<br>
kannel server.<br>
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Can anyone who knows about this please shed some light :) ?<br></blockquote><div><br>A quick google for "SMS gateway" should give you an instant list of internet SMS gateways.<br>I've seen dealers that offer scaled rates; The cost seems to vary between 2-4 cents per message<br>
at high volume (~10k messages/mo), and 10 cents per message at low volume. Their gateways vary in what it takes<br>to send and get messages, but all of them seem pretty workable via maybe cURL and Asterisk. They offer<br>
redundancy and around the clock availability.<br><br>I've seen some open source to make your own gateway, but I have not yet been able to <br>break off some time and find out how you get access to carriers, etc. I assume the SMS gateways<br>
take care of those issues, and that's why they charge the rates they do. If you find out more, <br>let me know!<br><br>murf<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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