RE: [SAGE] SMS gateway services

["Jack" <jack@xxxxxxxxx>]

since just about everyone has gone to using the commercial 'dialup banks'
like AOL/CompuServe uses world wide, I doubt it.  But it would never hurt to
find a vendor to ask.

You can even set up your own pretty inexpensively.  It takes one or two POTS
lines and a (external preferably, imho) modem.  Software is easily available
(verifax and hylafax)

http://www.hylafax.org/content/Send_SMS_with_Hylafax_in_Germany

is a link I found.  Someone might be interested.

What is needed?  A good modem, cheap computer, POTS line and a UPS (to help
with reliability), some time and download of software.  For most of us the
time is the most expensive part.

Personally I do not know of any (nor have I looked or needed) a commercial
gateway.  Sorry I could not be of more help.

--
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       Niels Bohr
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sage-members@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-sage-members@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Chris Ricker
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:45 AM
To: SAGE Members
Subject: Re: [SAGE] SMS gateway services

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.

Do you know of any such gateways still available in the US? I don't....

later,
chris