[Asterisk-Users] setting up asterisk as an sms central?

[Emanuele Pucciarelli]

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk ha scritto:
> hi
> 
> is it possible to use asterisk as an sms central to send SMSes  directly 
> to clients on PSTN instead of just communicating with a  central? the 
> telco to which we're currently connected doesn't have a  central....

Yes, as far as you can spoof the Caller ID ;)

The trick is that PSTN clients decide whether an incoming call is a SMS 
or not *before* answering, by looking at the Caller ID, and they are 
usually pre-programmed with the SMSC's phone number.  (At least, that's 
valid for the SMS-capable analog cordless phones I've seen till now.) 
So, that's going to be a problem, unless your telco is willing to help 
you at least in that respect, and let you send a valid SMSC's phone 
number as caller ID.

(Of course I haven't tried this across the public network, but I'd be 
ready to bet one or even two beers that it works!)

Bye,

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Emanuele