[dba-VB] Low Cost Worldwide SMS providers

Doug Murphy dw-murphy at cox.net
Sat Jul 17 13:19:49 CDT 2010


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

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