i'm pretty sure 10,000 is a very low volume to be considering going direct with carriers, i'd imagine you're going to need to be sending a lot more than that for it to be worth it. i wrote a php system a while ago which used to pump out over 1000 messages per minute and we were using a third party to deliver them.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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>*.</span></p>
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<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
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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" target="_blank">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 :) ?</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>
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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>
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murf<br>
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