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SMS Service in the USA

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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.

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