[asterisk-ss7] SS7 SMS

[Anton]

This is exactly what I meant when asking regadring the 
direct delivery of the message

On 12 April 2006 14:04, Steve Kennedy wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:54:50AM +0500, Anton wrote:
> > Does anyone know is it possible, using SS7 protocol (or
> > any other actually) to send a message DIRECTLY to a
> > mobile subscriber, avoiding contact with mobile
> > operator's SMS centre? For example operator's SMSC is
> > too busy and SMS message sometimes stays in a queue for
> > hours before getting delivered. So that would not be
> > suitable for notifying about emergency cases via SMS
> > for example.
>
> When a phone initiates an SMS (MO) it tries to establish
> a direct connection to another device, it will initiate
> an HLR look-up etc, and if it cant deliver to the final
> device it will go to the destination user's SMSC for
> later delivery.
>
> For fixed networks, there's usually a connection into an
> SMSC, which will then deliver into a phone on it's own
> network or try a phone on another network and if not it
> get's queued into the other networks SMSC.
>
> Steve