sms

Hello,

I have a question about sms providers and costs associated with sending/receiving sms on a site. I've looked around and there's really no great resource for that that I can find. we are building a site where users can sign up messages for different types of data . I'd like to include sms, but I am seeing that its extremely expensive. I'm not sure if I missed something but it looks as if the least expensive option is about 3 cents a text. We anticipate sending 50000-100000 solicited sms's a month.

Is it going to cost me 18 - 36k per year?

I wrote some bigger module to provide sms sending and receiving with the german Service sms-creator.de. For sending messages I also implemented a gateway for sms.module, but mainly it's a standalone module - with different features:

• sending SMS,MMS,...
• instant receiving SMS via HTTP-request from SMSC (type 1)
• receiving SMS via calling form SMSC server (type 2)
• message logging
• Credit Management (time flatrates, credit points per message) for sending and receiving messages (type2)

Hi folks --

I am trying to set up a basic working installation of SMS framework, by following the instructions by will white on:

http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/jun/04/sms-framework-notificati...

(I recognize those instructions didn't originate from this group.)

All seems to go smoothly, BUT when I reach the end step which involves simply posting a new story on your site and waiting for the alert to come though by SMS, the portal gives me the following error message when the published Story appears on the page:

Hey all, been watching the activities over at FrontlineSMS and it looks like a very interesting project. And they just got some pretty substantial foundation backing to support it. Also got confirmation from Ken over at kwinja.net that they are still planning to OS the code. Unfortunately I do not have a GSM phone to try it out right now, but it's on The List. Wondering if there is interest in the Community here to get it on the list as a supported gateway?
Cheers,
Coby
Metanomy.org

Hi - I'm hosting the San Francisco Drupal Users Group next month, and I want to bring in someone to talk about mobile integration with Drupal web sites. Anyone in this group a) live in the Bay Area, b) have some (actual) success implementing solutions?

Rob_Feature just tweeted about using SMS with Drupal, and yes, Rob, e-mail is the obvious answer. I don't know why I didn't think of that before!

OK, I don't know a lot about SMS, but am I correct that it's basically just email sent using a specific protocol on the provider's end? I know I can send what I believe is an SMS message to a phone if I know the email address for that account, which is usually something like the phone # @ the mobile provider's domain or some subdomain.

After looking at the sms blast module we were wondering about some use cases that have came up our way and think that they can be incorporated into the module rather than creating a seperate module for them.

A major milestone for the SMS Framework project is reliable and flexible support for incoming SMS messages. Tylor’s work on the SMS Receive module has kickstarted the effort and I believe we make a plan for the future of two-way support in the framework.

There has been some steady work to improve the SMS Framework module and I think it would be valuable to outline some thoughts on a 1.0 release. As far as new features the biggest ones will be the ability to receive messages and support for the Muse gateway. There will also be major improvements to user interface and scalability for the SMS User module.

Issues I would like to see resolved for a 1.0 release:
http://drupal.org/node/255095 - many improvements to SMS User
http://drupal.org/node/258057 - text messages should include more descriptive message

Hi all. We're in the final stages of developing TheDigitel.com, a local news site, and I'm trying to decide on the best avenue to integrate e-mail and SMS subscriptions. Before I go installing a bunch on the test server, I thought I'd ask for your thoughts.

Ideally, we want to offer people the ability to subscribe to a daily or weekly digest (perhaps based of our RSS feed), or to subscribe to a particular topic (i.e. e-mail me when there's a new story tagged with "road development") or to say SMS me when there's a new top story or story tagged with "wreck".