[asterisk-users] Dongle or extra channel and sip SMS

[Carlos Alvarez]

Something to check out:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smush/smart-sms-texting-for-everyone-the-smushbox

I'm not affiliated with them at all, but have done business with the
company on other things and have always been happy.



On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Chris Bagnall
<asterisk at lists.minotaur.cc>wrote:

> On 15/7/13 3:00 am, bilal ghayyad wrote:
>
>> I need to be able to send SMS messages for campaign or for specific
>> users, also I need to be able to receive SMS messages and do automatic
>> reply.
>>
>
> In my experience, SMS is something best done out of Asterisk. That's not
> to say that Asterisk can't do it, of course, just that there are providers
> out there who can give you a nice friendly API for easy integration into
> your application. This is especially true if you need to send *lots* of
> messages in a short space of time: simply adding a single mobile device
> with a single SIM isn't going to cut it - you're going to need a bunch of
> them, at least. All of those will likely have different numbers, so you're
> going to have to handle that for receiving messages. Then you have to
> consider that some networks will charge more to send messages to numbers on
> the same network vs. a different network, so you might have to separate out
> your numbers into networks (easy if they've never been ported; more tricky
> if they have).
>
> Based on past projects (in the UK), the cost of multiple SIM contracts,
> the necessary hardware to connect them, development time, etc., is usually
> more than the cost of paying a third party with a suitable API <x> per
> message to deliver them on your behalf.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Chris
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Carlos Alvarez
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