Dean,<br>Thanks... this pricing 'falling on face' will be determined by what our client says. Somehow I think it will be out of their range :) But we'll see.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 13, 2007 12:38 PM, Dean Collins <
<a href="mailto:Dean@cognation.net">Dean@cognation.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Hi Matt,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I've consulted in this space and
can answer all of your questions. You don't specify if you are in the USA so I'll
assume you are (lol all the people overseas are laughing at this point so laugh
along </span></font><font color="black" face="Wingdings" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: black;">J</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">
).</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">You're not going to like the
answers I have for you. </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">SMS Common Short Codes (CSC's)
are controlled by CSCA (a JV between CTIA and Neustar).</span></font></p>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li style="color: black;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">They
are available in either 5 or 6 digits </span></font></li>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li style="color: black;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">They
are leased for either $500 per month if you are ok with a random number
allocation </span></font></li>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">
or </span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li style="color: black;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">$1000
per month if you want to pick your own shortcode.</span></font></li>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">You can find out more information here <a href="http://www.usshortcodes.com/" target="_blank">http://www.usshortcodes.com
</a> </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-AU">Asumming you haven't fallen on the floor
and are ok paying my hourly fee (<a href="http://www.cognation.net/rates" target="_blank">www.cognation.net/rates</a>)
I'm happy tot ake your call and provide you with a ton of other
information about how you actually implement this, work with agregators and
what revenue percentages you can expect to receive from the carriers.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-AU"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Regards,</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-AU">
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Dean Collins<br>
Cognation Pty Ltd<br>
<a href="mailto:dean@cognation.net" title="mailto:dean@cognation.net" target="_blank">dean@cognation.net</a> <br>
+1-212-203-4357<br>
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney
in-dial).</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Matt<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 13 December 2007
11:33 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Asterisk
Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [asterisk-users] Cell
Phone SMS</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Though this is not exactly an asterisk question, I have thoughts of
asterisk integration. Does anyone know how I might get a several
digit SMS code and allow people to SMS it? The second step is, is
there a way to charge their bill x dollars when they do that (ie for a donation
to a non-profit type thing). </span></font></p>
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