[Asterisk-Users] SMS to fixed phone line

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

This would be great to have working!

PaulH
Blackburn, Vic

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Harper" <james.harper at bendigoit.com.au>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:08 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] SMS to fixed phone line


> Telstra (Australian Telco) has recently introduced a feature to allow
> the sending of SMS direct to fixed analogue lines, with an appropriate
> handset.
>
> As best as I can figure out, this appears to use CID type signalling, or
> at least on a line that otherwise has no CID on it, CID is sent, but
> with a standard modem I can only receive the date, time, and phone
> number (eg normal CID info).
>
> After that the phone rings, but Telstra will just call the number and
> use 'Text to Speech' to read the message out when a user answers.
>
> Does anyone know anything more about this in Australia or, failing that,
> if they do the same thing anywhere else in the world?
>
> My guess is that either:
> 1. the whole message is transmitted in the CID period, but my modem
> doesn't hear it, but then I don't know how Telstra would know that the
> message has been received.
> 2. Some indicative signalling takes place in the CID, which then
> triggers the handset to hide rings from the user and use normal modem
> signalling to transfer the message.
>
> If it has been around for a while outside Australia, is there an SMS
> module for Asterisk which would make use of it? I think that being able
> to receive (and probably send - haven't even started looking at that yet
> but it is supported in the same way) SMS messages would be a really
> nifty thing to be able to do from a phoneline, and would save me buying
> a $600 GSM modem to do the same thing!
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
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