<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/9 Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anselm@hoffmeister-online.de">anselm@hoffmeister-online.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Am Donnerstag, den 09.07.2009, 11:26 +0200 schrieb ESGLinux:<br>
<div class="im">> Hi all,<br>
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> I´m a beginner with asterisk and I want to know if with asterisk I can<br>
> send sms to a mobile, I´m on Spain, and I don´t know this can be a<br>
> problem (with the operators...)<br>
<br>
</div>Hi,<br>
<br>
the SMS code in Asterisk is - afaik - only for the landline type of SMS.<br>
It can behave as landline-SMS capable phone (like some of the Siemens<br>
Gigaset DECT devices, for example) and talk to a landline-SMS center<br>
that will for a certain charge forward short messages to mobile phones.<br>
<br>
It can also behave as landline-SMS center and talk to appropriate<br>
phones.<br>
<br>
As a background info, landline phones can recognize that a landline SMS<br>
center is calling them by caller ID (which must be programmed, many<br>
phones ship with the local companies' numbers preprogrammed) and will<br>
not ring the bell but silently answer the line. The message transfer<br>
works with 1200 baud modem-like analogue audio (even if the phone is an<br>
ISDN device) - you can watch the actual message bytes on the Asterisk<br>
CLI if you turn on debug, in some kind of simple protocol and some<br>
8bit-to-7bit mapping.<br>
<br>
It cannot directly talk to mobile phones: short messages are<br>
transmitted out-of-band in the GSM networks, and the mobile operators<br>
will not allow you direct access there. After all, short messages make a<br>
hefty percentage of their income at a minimum percentage of<br>
infrastructure usage.<br>
<br>
The situation in Germany (and to my knowledge, in several other European<br>
states) is that you can connect to a premium-rate landline-SMS center<br>
and hand them a short message for relaying. As that is bound to cost<br>
hardly less than using a mobile phone directly, it is not at all<br>
interesting for me (ymmv). I prefer using one of those<br>
web-interface-to-sms providers (mine can be used with wget from scripts<br>
etc) and pay between 3 and 12 cents per message, depending on<br>
destination country and "quality of service" selection. They have been<br>
reliable for quite some time now, and I remember that landline-SMS was a<br>
little too fiddly for my taste.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<font color="#888888">Anselm<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ok thanks for your answer, </div><div><br></div><div>I think your are right with the landline-SMS, </div><div><br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance</div><div><br></div><div>ESG</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>