[asterisk-users] is possible to sen sms with asterisk in Spain?

[Jorge Mendoza]

ESGLinux wrote:
>
>
> 2009/7/9 Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <anselm at hoffmeister-online.de
> <mailto:anselm at hoffmeister-online.de>>
>
>     Am Donnerstag, den 09.07.2009, 11:26 +0200 schrieb ESGLinux:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     >
>     > I´m a beginner with asterisk and I want to know if with asterisk
>     I can
>     > send sms to a mobile, I´m on Spain, and I don´t know this can be a
>     > problem (with the operators...)
>
>     Hi,
>
>     the SMS code in Asterisk is - afaik - only for the landline type
>     of SMS.
>     It can behave as landline-SMS capable phone (like some of the Siemens
>     Gigaset DECT devices, for example) and talk to a landline-SMS center
>     that will for a certain charge forward short messages to mobile
>     phones.
>
>     It can also behave as landline-SMS center and talk to appropriate
>     phones.
>
>     As a background info, landline phones can recognize that a
>     landline SMS
>     center is calling them by caller ID (which must be programmed, many
>     phones ship with the local companies' numbers preprogrammed) and will
>     not ring the bell but silently answer the line. The message transfer
>     works with 1200 baud modem-like analogue audio (even if the phone
>     is an
>     ISDN device) - you can watch the actual message bytes on the Asterisk
>     CLI if you turn on debug, in some kind of simple protocol and some
>     8bit-to-7bit mapping.
>
>     It cannot directly talk to mobile phones: short messages are
>     transmitted out-of-band in the GSM networks, and the mobile operators
>     will not allow you direct access there. After all, short messages
>     make a
>     hefty percentage of their income at a minimum percentage of
>     infrastructure usage.
>
>     The situation in Germany (and to my knowledge, in several other
>     European
>     states) is that you can connect to a premium-rate landline-SMS center
>     and hand them a short message for relaying. As that is bound to cost
>     hardly less than using a mobile phone directly, it is not at all
>     interesting for me (ymmv). I prefer using one of those
>     web-interface-to-sms providers (mine can be used with wget from
>     scripts
>     etc) and pay between 3 and 12 cents per message, depending on
>     destination country and "quality of service" selection. They have been
>     reliable for quite some time now, and I remember that landline-SMS
>     was a
>     little too fiddly for my taste.
>
>     Regards
>     Anselm
>
>
> ok thanks for your answer, 
>
> I think your are right with the landline-SMS, 
>
> Now my question changes to, how can I send a SMS to my cellular phone,
> what hardware, software, subcription to service or somthing else do I
> need?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> ESG
>
Take a look at:
http://www.ozekisms.com/index.php?owpn=319

See Kannel as well:
http://www.kannel.org/

Jorge Mendoza