[asterisk-users] is possible to sen sms with asterisk in Spain?

[ESGLinux]

2009/7/9 Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <anselm at hoffmeister-online.de>

> Am Donnerstag, den 09.07.2009, 11:26 +0200 schrieb ESGLinux:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I´m a beginner with asterisk and I want to know if with asterisk I can
> > send sms to a mobile, I´m on Spain, and I don´t know this can be a
> > problem (with the operators...)
>
> Hi,
>
> the SMS code in Asterisk is - afaik - only for the landline type of SMS.
> It can behave as landline-SMS capable phone (like some of the Siemens
> Gigaset DECT devices, for example) and talk to a landline-SMS center
> that will for a certain charge forward short messages to mobile phones.
>
> It can also behave as landline-SMS center and talk to appropriate
> phones.
>
> As a background info, landline phones can recognize that a landline SMS
> center is calling them by caller ID (which must be programmed, many
> phones ship with the local companies' numbers preprogrammed) and will
> not ring the bell but silently answer the line. The message transfer
> works with 1200 baud modem-like analogue audio (even if the phone is an
> ISDN device) - you can watch the actual message bytes on the Asterisk
> CLI if you turn on debug, in some kind of simple protocol and some
> 8bit-to-7bit mapping.
>
> It cannot directly talk to mobile phones: short messages are
> transmitted out-of-band in the GSM networks, and the mobile operators
> will not allow you direct access there. After all, short messages make a
> hefty percentage of their income at a minimum percentage of
> infrastructure usage.
>
> The situation in Germany (and to my knowledge, in several other European
> states) is that you can connect to a premium-rate landline-SMS center
> and hand them a short message for relaying. As that is bound to cost
> hardly less than using a mobile phone directly, it is not at all
> interesting for me (ymmv). I prefer using one of those
> web-interface-to-sms providers (mine can be used with wget from scripts
> etc) and pay between 3 and 12 cents per message, depending on
> destination country and "quality of service" selection. They have been
> reliable for quite some time now, and I remember that landline-SMS was a
> little too fiddly for my taste.
>
> Regards
> Anselm
>

ok thanks for your answer,

I think your are right with the landline-SMS,

Now my question changes to, how can I send a SMS to my cellular phone, what
hardware, software, subcription to service or somthing else do I need?

Thanks in advance

ESG
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