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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Steve, thanks but all Google searches refer me to third party
providers. That is precisely what I am trying to avoid. I want to
be one of them. How do they do it? … I want to contract directly
with the *<b>carrier</b>*.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>CS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Murphy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-biz] Anyone knows about wholesale text messaging
contracts?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:10 PM, C. Savinovich <<a
href="mailto:c.savinovich@itntelecom.com">c.savinovich@itntelecom.com</a>>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi, we will be sending about 10 thousand text messages per
day through<br>
Clickatell. (From an Asterisk server)... We want to send the messages<br>
directly to the carriers. I am using Kannel (at least I am trying to). At<br>
that volume, there is got to be wholesale contracts available from the<br>
*wireless carriers*, and even sms centers to connect to. I would not
think<br>
this could be done with 10 cell phones plugged to the usb ports of the<br>
kannel server.<br>
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Can anyone who knows about this please shed some light :) ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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A quick google for "SMS gateway" should give you an instant list of
internet SMS gateways.<br>
I've seen dealers that offer scaled rates; The cost seems to vary between 2-4
cents per message<br>
at high volume (~10k messages/mo), and 10 cents per message at low volume.
Their gateways vary in what it takes<br>
to send and get messages, but all of them seem pretty workable via maybe cURL
and Asterisk. They offer<br>
redundancy and around the clock availability.<br>
<br>
I've seen some open source to make your own gateway, but I have not yet been
able to <br>
break off some time and find out how you get access to carriers, etc. I assume
the SMS gateways<br>
take care of those issues, and that's why they charge the rates they do. If you
find out more, <br>
let me know!<br>
<br>
murf<br>
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CS<br>
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