[asterisk-biz] Anyone knows about wholesale text messaging contracts?

[Jared Geiger]

Some SMSs are sent via SS7 but a majority are via IP in the SMPP protocol.
All high volume carriers use SMPP to interconnect with only a small subset
going over SS7.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Jarrod Lash <jarrod at fed-com.com> wrote:

> SMS messages are generally sent over the SS7 network.
>
> The online providers take your message via their apis and drop them to
> ss7 links with the legacy telecom carriers.
>
> For in depth reading check out:
> http://www.ncs.gov/library/tech_bulletins/2003/tib_03-2.pdf
>
> and google -> sms ss7
>
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> Jarrod Lash, <jarrod at fed-com.com>
> Federated Communications, LLC.
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>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:10 PM, C. Savinovich
> <c.savinovich at itntelecom.com> wrote:
> > Hi, we will be sending about 10 thousand text messages per day through
> > Clickatell. (From an Asterisk server)... We want to send the messages
> > directly to the carriers. I am using Kannel (at least I am trying to).
>  At
> > that volume, there is got to be wholesale contracts available from the
> > *wireless carriers*, and even sms centers to connect to.  I would not
> think
> > this could be done with 10 cell phones plugged to the usb ports of the
> > kannel server.
> >
> > Can anyone who knows about this please shed some light :) ?
> >
> > CS
> >
> >
> >
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