SMS-Texting?

[clintonG]

Where do I learn to send SMS-Texting messages? What kind of solutions do we
have as C# developers using Microsoft? There is so much "mobile" this and
that at MSDN I don't know where to start with the latest.

 

[forever.zet]

Where do I learn to send SMS-Texting messages? What kind of solutions do we
have as C# developers using Microsoft? There is so much "mobile" this and
that at MSDN I don't know where to start with the latest.

If you are talking about sending SMS from computer to cell phone:
My communication company has special email addresses in form of
<cell phone number>@sms.mts.com.ua. You can send there an email and
the text in email will
be delivered to corresponding cell phone. So sending an SMS to a cell
phone number in this
case is just sending email to this address. And there are a lot of
APIs to send emails.
I suppose most communication companies have the same kind of service.

If you are talking about sending SMS from mobile device, I think you
can start from here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446545.aspx

Thanks,
Sergey Zyuzin.

 

[clintonG]

I later learned of an address which coincides with the signature your
service provider supports. Easy eh? Now I'm wondering if there is some way
for a person receiving an SMS text message to reply or forward the text
message. It doesn't seem like it at the moment.

We're thinking SMS is a way to simultaneously send out a short text message
to a couple dozen people who carry phones around but we must make it really
easy and as fast as possible for those who receive the text message to reply
so we can assign the first one to reply a job. Think of a group of
contractors signed up for a job and when the job is available they all get
an SMS text message and the first to reply gets the job.

We were thinking of using SMS because all current phones appear to support
SMS but all of the different browsers and complexity of developing mobile
applications for all of the different phones and carriers make it a big
expensive pain in the ass to make this line of business work out. In other
words, we cannot compel everybody to use Windows Mobile phones.

Where do I learn to send SMS-Texting messages? What kind of solutions do
we
have as C# developers using Microsoft? There is so much "mobile" this and
that at MSDN I don't know where to start with the latest.

If you are talking about sending SMS from computer to cell phone:
My communication company has special email addresses in form of
<cell phone number>@sms.mts.com.ua. You can send there an email and
the text in email will
be delivered to corresponding cell phone. So sending an SMS to a cell
phone number in this
case is just sending email to this address. And there are a lot of
APIs to send emails.
I suppose most communication companies have the same kind of service.

If you are talking about sending SMS from mobile device, I think you
can start from here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446545.aspx

Thanks,
Sergey Zyuzin.

 

[bob clegg]

Hi,
As far as the PC side of things go, we use a GSM modem that is hooked
up to a provider and a third party OCX to provide the sms send and
receive functionality.
Have a google for Ozeki or ActiveXperts, we have used both
successfully.

HTH
Bob

 

[christery]

Anyone solved the delay problem? we also send SMS but one and one, so
I get a mess that a network node is down, and then a minute later a
coworker gets it... annoying..
//CY

 

[clintonG]

I appreciate Bob's referrals, very pertinent solutions I'll be putting more
time into evaluating. Clearly, I'd like to know more about delay and latency
though myself. One of our fundamental concerns are the "real time" claims.