RE: [SAGE] SMS gateway services

["Jack" <jack@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the dark days before cell phones, when alpha-numeric pagers were big, a
company I worked for converted from over 20 pager companies to AT&T (prior
to SWBell purchase of AT&T).  We used SMS message by using a modem to dial
their SMS gateway from our Sun servers.  It was highly reliable then.  We
used it for out of band alerting.

One of the neat tricks was we could send the same message to many people at
once, but only one message per phone call to the SMS server. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sage-members@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-sage-members@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Chris Ricker
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:25 AM
To: Derek J. Balling
Cc: Kaj Niemi; David Blank-Edelman; SAGE Members
Subject: Re: [SAGE] SMS gateway services

Derek J. Balling wrote:
> We used one of those at $JOB[-1] for our out-of-band alerting of 
> system issues. The biggest problem, in the US, is convincing a carrier 
> to let you use it, and not turning it off every couple months.

My experience with them and T-Mobile in the US is very similar. More
headache than it was worth since it wasn't even remotely reliable....

later,
chris