6/10 My boss has this idea of creating a cross-carrier SMS
application. Search the web only showed me companies that
sell cross-carrier SMS platforms. I can't seem to find any
pointers to how such application can be created. Any ideas?
It would seem to me the carriers would have to expose their
SMS gateway APIs to accomplish this. BTW, one explicit
requirement is not to use the SMTP implementation of SMS that most
carriers allow.
\_ Short answer: If you're in Europe, SMS is already standard and the
API is already public. But, then again, cross carrier SMS already
works in Europe so what you propose is unnecessary there. Since
you're in the US, you are, as the French say, fucked. If you're
not going to use the SMTP to SMS gateways that the telcos provide,
you get to contract with each and every telco for the privilege of
using their SMS systems, most of which were never really built to
interoperate. Telcos are big and slow. Expect six months
negotiation time, and make sure your contact at each telco was
hired in the last month or two because average telco turnover time
is roughly six months. I'd be happy to chat with you about this
some more, but it would be on a consultancy basis. Send me email
if interested. -dans
\_ I saw the french get beaten up by Jet Li. That was GREAT!
\_ Yeah, I saw that move too. It kicked ass. -dans
\_ where are the 3133+ logout pics, raverboy?
\_ Hi Paolo. Yes I have pics, yes they're going up when I
get the chance. But first I have to crack open
photoshop and filter out that nasty blue shift your
camera introduced into them. Say, seeing as you live
across the hall from me, why the fuck are you asking
this on the motd? Seems, um, inefficient.
\_ Yeah, I saw that movie too. It kicked ass. -dans
\_ With a French flag on a flagpole, no less!
\_ which one was that?
\_ Kiss of the Dragon
\_ Someone told me to use SMPP. Is that really universal? -op
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