[asterisk-biz] 8 ports GSM PCI Card or Gateway

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On 12/24/06, Sam Tam <no-junk at cyber-telecom.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> We do GSM Gateway that has a SMS port for only £99 GBP per unit.
>
> For more info please visit cyber-telecom.net
>
> Sam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Totaro [mailto:stotaro at totarotechnologies.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:02 AM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] 8 ports GSM PCI Card or Gateway
>
> Steve Kennedy wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:29:43PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Would this work in the US?  I want to use it primarily to send SMS.  It
> >> seems that all of the SMS relay companies charge too much.  It would be
> >> great to stick my T-Mobile SIM into something like this, route through
> >> asterisk to Kanal.  Unlimited SMS is $14.99/mo with T-Mob.
> >> Anyone know what could accomplish this?
> >>
> >
> > You can get a Siemens TC/MC35 GSM terminal and they'll do SMS quite well
> > (only one SIM per unit), Nokia make one as do Falcom and others.
> >
> > I think Junghams make a 4 port card.
> >
> > You'll be limited by throughput on the units though as they can only
> > handle a certain number of SMS per minute (probably 10 to 20). You also
> > have to beware that SIMs have a limited numbers of writes and will stop
> > working after a while (some terminals allow "sim buffering off" which
> > will hopefully use the terminal's memory to store SMSs).
> >
> > Utilising a gateway (like Kannel - note spelling) and a SMPP or equiv
> > protocol may give you higher rates, but there'll be a per SMS charge.
> > The phone networks I believe use AA19 agreements for SMS termination
> > (well in the GSM world) and that's a set termination rate between
> > operators - somewhere between 2 and 3.5p (4 and 7cents), but diffificult
> > to find out, unless you're an operator.
> >
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
>
> What are the limitations of a SIM as far as writes?  Is there some sort
> of hard number?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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