[asterisk-users] Assistance sending mass sms to cellphones

[cobra2]

You may want to look into using google voice + pygooglevoice for this. 
I set up something similar for a baseball team to notify parents. I had 
to write a bunch of python scripts that were called from the dialplan 
and set a timeout between them so that it would not lock itself out of 
GV from the 'mass SMS'. 

--cobra2



On Friday, August 05, 2011 01:27:52 PM Robert Huddleston wrote:
> When you say expensive... You are talking about pennies per SMS... 
Again -
> if you want to cheat and go the email route - that would be free... 
It's
> unreliable and requires some thought...
> 
> If you want more information / consulting contact me off-list.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
Landy Landy
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 12:49 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Assistance sending mass sms to 
cellphones
> 
> Robert.
> 
> Thanks for replying.
> 
> --- On Fri, 8/5/11, Robert Huddleston <rhuddleston at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > From: Robert Huddleston <rhuddleston at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Assistance sending mass sms to 
cellphones
> > To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"
> 
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> 
> > Date: Friday, August 5, 2011, 11:50 AM
> > This is off topic...
> > 
> > Asterisk will not provide you with the ability to SMS
> > random cell phones.
> 
> We actually have a group of people belonging to a rotary club and 
we wanted
> to automate the sms process... is not random cell phones.
> 
> > Being able to "transport" the SMS yourself is a grewling
> > process.. Look at
> > software like Kamel...
> > 
> > Basically you have three options:
> > ( a ) cheat and use the email method - i.e. determine
> > everyone's carrier and
> > use the email address equivalent
> > ( b ) utilize a 3rd party to transmit the sms for you
> > (cost) and they might
> 
> Looks like this is the easiest option but, very expensive for what we 
really
> want to do.
> 
> > end up doing ( a ) above without you knowing
> > ( c ) spend lots of money and headaches transporting sms
> > yourself.
> > 
> > Either way it's off-topic and not related to Asterisk.
> 
> Sorry, didn't think this wasnt an asterisk related question.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]
> > On Behalf Of Landy Landy
> > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:42 AM
> > To: asterisk
> > Subject: [asterisk-users] Assistance sending mass sms to
> > cellphones
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I would like to know if is possible to send mass sms with
> > an php agi script
> > through asterisk?
> > 
> > For example: I have about 50 cellphone numbers I would like
> > to text whenever
> > theres a meeting, I should load the numbers from a database
> > and send a
> > message via web with php and have asterisk send it.
> > 
> > I've been googling about it but, I get a lot of providers
> > that already do
> > this but, I would like to learn how to do it myself since
> > my budget is very
> > minimum.
> > 
> > Thanks in advanced for your help and time.
> > 
> > 
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