Shamil Salakhetdinov
shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
Sun Jul 18 02:30:34 CDT 2010
Hello Doug, Thank you for your information. But to send SMS messages "through each providers sms interface" you have to pay for that "sms interface" web access or it is free there? Or I'm missing the way you use it there? First of all I have to find a way how to *receive* SMS messages from "field force automation" users/employees who will work worldwide, and who will have only SMS messaging option using their mobile phones, no GPRS, no 3rd or 4th-generation web access from their mobile phones - "stone age" you know :) And that sending SMS messages' costs should be as low as possible optimally equal to the costs of sending SMS message locally in each country. As the messages should be sent every day then I'd expect there should be satisfactory low cost (batch) option available from providers as http://www.clickatell.com/products/two_way.php ... Thank you. -- Shamil -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:20 PM To: 'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.' Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Low Cost Worldwide SMS providers Hello Shamil, I looked at providers for a messeging application for an organization we work with. They all charged on a per message basis and we are low/no budget so that wasn't feasible. What I did was to create our messaging database with each persons provider. That way the messages could be sent through each providers sms interface, e.g. AT&T is @txt.att.net. I then use that and the users number to send the messages as I would sending an email from access. I found a web site that had all the providers portal addresses, but for some reason didn't capture the url or can't find where I stored it. My brain does not have a very good search function and what is there only degrades with time. CellProviderID Provider ProviderTextPortal 1 T-Mobile @tmomail.net 2 Virgin Mobile @vmobl.com 3 Cingular @cingularme.com 4 Sprint @messaging.sprintpcs.com 5 Verizon @vtext.com 6 Nextel @messaging.nextel.com 7 US Cellular @email.uscc.net 8 SunCom @tms.suncom.com 9 Powertel @ptel.net 10 AT&T @txt.att.net 11 Alltel @message.alltel 12 PCS @MyMetroPcs.com Hope this helps to some extent. This may not be a satisfactory solution for a business application. Doug -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 3:20 AM To: 'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.' Subject: [dba-VB] Low Cost Worldwide SMS providers Hi All -- I'm looking for a low cost worldwide two-way SMS provider to be integrated in my customer's application: Google search: http://www.google.ru/search?hl=ru&source=hp&q=low+cost+worldwide+SMS+provide rs&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= has returned the following links: 1. http://www.clickatell.com/products/two_way.php 2. http://www.ficall.com/english/#/ficall/about 3. http://www.animatele.com/index.html The first one - Clickatell - seems to be a good option. Do you have any experience in working with Clickatell? Do you know and successfully used any other low cost worldwide SMS providers in your applications? Thank you. -- Shamil _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com