The cmd sms in Asterisk seems to rely on standard gateway services provided in each country.

In research the use of this functionality in the US I have been unable to concretely identify a method to mirror the use shown for Europe.

Here is some information I was able to find.


''Either ask your ISDN provider if they provide multi-operator SMS routing (probably as D channel messaging). Or contact directly the mobile operator(s) you want to send SMS to. They may provide ISDN (probably as data over B chan) access to their SMSC.

Other ways of submitting SMSs to SMS-C are mostly :
- through X25 (which itself might be available as leased line, dial-up, B-chan ISDN or D-chan ISDN).
- through IP
- through dial-up
- using a handset connected to a serial port (easy and cheap!)
- using an SMS broker, such as Netsize in Europe, for instance.

Note that in most countries, direct interconnect with SMS-C (X25/IP) are usually meant for large account (SMS brokers, for instance).

--
Nicolas Bougues
Axialys Interactive''

Some new information:
The SMSC number for Cingular is 14047259015. I haven't been able to test it yet, though.

They appear to have changed this number to "+14047259000"

If any one can add details or have a working implementation/configuration using cmd sms or similar in the US, please post the details here.