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

[Steve Totaro]

I see no mention of SMS.

Thanks,
Steve

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> On 12/24/06, *Sam Tam* <no-junk at cyber-telecom.net 
> <mailto: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
>     <http://cyber-telecom.net>
>
>     Sam
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Steve Totaro [mailto:stotaro at totarotechnologies.com
>     <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
>