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weis
04-07-2002, 01:48 PM
:confused: I want to build up my webpage to let people send the sms, how can I set up this system. Does any software I need?? Or any method?? Please tell me step by step because I still new in this field?? Thanks a lot to whom can let me know....

Choppy
04-07-2002, 07:19 PM
One of the projects i have worked on in the past that never came to be was a sms/ringtone/logo site for mobile phones (Cell phones) etc.

You must make a deal with a teleco to bulk buy sms strings or messages etc. I have forgot all the website but a search on google would give you a good understanding...

i also hope if you are going to do this as a professional site charging money for sms etc be prepared to start of with 20k for around 30000 + sms a month. Im not sure about the pricing anyone but this it what it looked like till a few months ago.

If you really want to use someone else sms gateway and not your own im sure i have seen php scripts on sites that you can direct email to sms - sms to email and maybe using the same method edit scripts and/or create a script that uses the other companyies sms network, but im not sure if this is legal.

Do a search on google and see what you come up with now.

make sure to come back and correct me but cause the project we were working on is on the back burner at the moment till the new sponsor comes in to play.

good luck

apollo
04-08-2002, 11:32 AM
If you are just starting, I suggest you put up web-to-email script that sends out email to SMS provider email gateway that will route email txt to user phone number. This is of course the cheapest method, but usually not easy to support if you are going to incorporate multiple providers. Also, if unlucky - a provider may have no e-mail to sms gateway at all - then you are in trouble and this solution will not work for you.

Then, you must consider linking your web site API to SMS provider gateway and that will cost you. I was going thru quotes 1 month ago and we could get as low as 3 cents a transaction from some South Africa telecoms. US telcos/SMS gateways are 3.5..4 cents per message, but UK is the most expensive running from 4 up to 7 cents per sent message.

But try to contact and search South Africa telcos - they offer the best pricing and are more better at customer service due to high bucks comparing to their low economy.... Hope this helps.

MattF
04-08-2002, 12:57 PM
Unfortunately be prepared to pay or scrap the idea, you need the economies of scale on your side and plenty of sponsorship, there is no PHP/Perl script to send SMS, their might be a PHP script to interact with a cost-per-SMS gateway service but nothing for free. Most sites offering free SMS sending (sponsored by banner ads and sometimes a string added to the end of SMS) are slowly withdrawing their service or placing limitations on the number of messages. This is because most providers (in the UK anyway) now charge a termination charge to the sender's network for each message received.

Any small site offering free SMS is probably "using" some larger site's SMS service, by parsing the HTML and submitting the forms server-side, complexed but possible. However this will be against the larger site's TOS and I gather illegal, also a simple change in the HTML or submitting method will leave you hanging.

If you want to pay then deltica.com offer a service and API that might be of interest to you.

roby2k
04-09-2002, 04:50 PM
There is a php script you can use ppl must have uboot or some other account it does work here is the demo HERE FREE SMS (http://roby2k.l33t.ca/sms/sms/demo.php)