SMS gateways

[Cristian]

Hi,

I am looking for a SMS gateway that I can use on a website to allow
users to send a short txt message to a friend or themselves from the
website and have the user/sender get charged by the mobile carrier for
sending the SMS message instead of the website owner.

Does anyone know of such SMS gateway?

Thanks for the help

Cristian

[Jochen Daum]

Hi,

Hyperfactory (stay away) and Datasquirt do this.

Its a lengthy process and expensive, good luck.

Regards,

Jochen

What is smart about smartgates and their website?

automatem . software solutions

EMAIL WEB PHONE MOBILE

J...@AUTOMATEM.CO.NZ WWW.AUTOMATEM.CO.NZ 0800 GO 4 AUTO (0800 464288) 021 567 853

[Dmitry Ruban]

Could you please explain in more details how do you think it should work?

All sms gateways (internet -> mobile) work on prepaid model. You should
buy credits and then use them to send SMS.

Cristian:

[James McGlinn]

Hi Cristian,

> I am looking for a SMS gateway that I can use on a website to allow
> users to send a short txt message to a friend or themselves from the
> website and have the user/sender get charged by the mobile carrier for
> sending the SMS message instead of the website owner.

There are any number of SMS gateways in New Zealand that will do that
- try Rocom, Lateral Profiles, or Bulletin Wireless to get you started.

Keep in mind there'll be shortcode setup/maintenance costs with each
network, and you may have a battle with them if you want to charge the
user for one-off MT (mobile terminated) messages. That sort of system
is potentially wide open to abuse, so they prefer MO/MT pairs where
the user initiates the correspondence and they can be happy charging
the full cost to their account.

Kind Regards,
James McGlinn
__________________________________
Eventfinder Limited
Suite 106 Heards Building
2 Ruskin St, Parnell, Auckland 1052
Phone: 021 633 234

james....@eventfinder.co.nz | www.eventfinder.co.nz

[Gareth Pearce]

Sonic Mobile - check them out.

Regards,

Gareth Pearce
Ezibed.com
www.ezibed.com
P: 0800 394 233 or +64 6 8585442
skype: ezibed.com

[Hamish Campbell]

Hey man,

I think the tricky bit might be:

> user/sender get charged by the mobile carrier

In my experience, usually with these gateway providers you get one
free response to an _incoming_ text message. Ie, like a normal
webserver, there is a request (their text to you) and a response (your
text back).

A good example of this is mukuna.co.nz, where you receive a response
when you send a request to their SMS gateway.

If you want to forgo the charge for sending outbound texts without the
corresponding incoming text things get funky. I believe (not based on
much experience tho) that you would have to talk to the telcos about
setting up a premium text line (eg, 50c charge to customer rather than
standard 20c or whatever), which is effectively passed on to them as
payment.

No reason you can't contact datasquirt or similar looking for info
though - I'm sure they'll give the full rundown for free if you look
like a potential customer :)

Cheers,

Hamish

[Dalibor Andzakovic]

Forwarding from NZNOG :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Clark Mills [mailto:c.m...@auckland.ac.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2007 7:38 a.m.
To: NZ Network Operators Group
Subject: [nznog] Email to SMS gateway

Hi all.

I read this on one of our internal mailing lists, thought it might be of
interest / use. We use something like this for server monitoring but
it's not so good if your email server / network is down, aside from the
potential lagginess [SP?] that sometimes occurs with the SMS service.

Still, it may have some value to you.

Of course if any information below is wrong, please let me know.

Cheers... Clark

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[forwarded & edited]

If you are on Vodafone, you can 'register' you phone by texting the
letter R to the number 901. You should then get back a 'you are
registered etc' welcome message.

Once your phone is registered anyone/thing can send you a txt by using
an email address such as:

64211...@sms.vodafone.net.nz

Where your mobile number is presumed to be 021-123456.

As far as I know, there is no charge for this service.

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[Cristian Rosescu]

Thanks everyone for their help. It's definitely helped us lots.

Cristian
www.citriclabs.co.nz

2008/5/12 Dalibor Andzakovic <Dalibor.A...@swerve.co.nz>: