[Asterisk-Users] SMS & Asterisk - an explanation

[Scott Stingel]

Maxim-

This will not work through a FWD DID as you suggest.  BT requires each
telephone number to be registered in order to receive SMS messages.  You
need a either an analogue, BRI, or PRI line that terminates in your asterisk
box directly.  The way a line gets registered is that you must initiate a
special SMS message on the asterisk box from the number you are registering
(see the details on the asterisk Wiki page, under the SMS command)

Once you have registered a number, you can send an SMS text message from a
UK mobile to that number, and the asterisk box will receive it, assuming
that you've defined SMS handling for that number in your dialplan.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  As of two weeks ago when I tested this, BT is only
accepting SMS's from Vodafone mobiles - O2 and Orange do not work yet.  (not
sure about T-Mobile)  You can send messages to all carriers however.   This
is expected to change in the next couple months when BT will accept SMS's
from all carriers. 

Regards
Scott Stingel 


Scott M. Stingel
President,
Emerging Voice Technology, Inc.
Palo Alto California & London England
www.evtmedia.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Maxim
Litnitsky
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:19 PM

calluk.com gives free 0870 DIDs. 
I registered my 0870 to FWD account, and FWD passes all to my * box.
When I send SMS to my 0870 DID, * shows nothing and I get SMS error.
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