Re: [SAGE] SMS gateway services

[Daniel Rich <drich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack wrote:
> 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. 
>   

The biggest problem with these is that more and more carriers have 
dropped TAP support.  For example, we cannot send messages to anyone 
with a T-Mobile or AT&T phone any longer, unless we use e-mail (which 
somewhat defeats the purpose when we're paging from a monitoring system).

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