[Asterisk-Users] Happy Wednesday Morning SMS question, slightly OT

[David Boyd]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 10:23, Jay Milk wrote:
> We all mostly know that * as well as various SIP phones support SMS.
> While the final setup is somewhat of a mystery, there are reports of
> those lucky souls who have it working.  We also know that in order to
> send an SMS to a mobile phone, we need to connect to some SMS message
> center and get the word out that way.  
> 
> Now, here's the new (?) element:  How can I *accept* messages on my
> voip-based US landline?  I know that if I send an SMS from my T-Mobile
> phone to a friend's Verizon phone, the message goes through, so
> somewhere there must exist a national message center that knows which
> carrier to hand the message off to.  Technically it should be possible
> to register a phone number with them to receive messages sent from
> cell-phones or from other * systems, and then to receive these messages
> through * and onto a SMS capable IP phone...?
> 
> Who knows more about this?
> 
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isn't SMS sent out via SS7?
dave