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Message Digest Volume 28 : Issue 14 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: How to find out mobile carrier's web-to-sms gateway address? Nortel files for bankruptcy protection AT&T drops Appleton, WI time/temp service - local guy picks it up ====== 27 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ====== Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome. We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer, and other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:00:21 GMT From: tlvp <PmUiRsGcE.TtHlEvSpE@att.net> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Re: How to find out mobile carrier's web-to-sms gateway address? Message-ID: <op.unqom6u6wqrt3j@acer250.gateway.2wire.net> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:09:04 -0500, John <linwh348@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 1月7日, 下午8时24分, tlvp <PmUiRsGcE.TtHlEv...@att.net> wrote: >> On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:38:31 -0500, steven acer <dudest...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Is there anyway to find the e-mail-to-SMS gateway a mobile carrier >> > uses to route email as SMS messages? I am talking about any carrier: I >> > found some lists on the internet, but they don't cover all the >> > countries. >> > >> > (http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-to-sms/gateway-list/) >> >> > If I can send sms messages from a web interface my carrier provides >> > this means that this carrier has a gateway [like] the ones I am talking >> > about. I need a way to find these addresses regardless of the carrier >> > and the country. >> >> And I'd particularly welcome such data for the Polish providers Idea, >> Plus, Era, and Orange. Even better would be the added information, which >> 3-digit cellular prefixes are proprietary to which of these various >> providers. >> >> Thanks, and cheers, -- tlvp > > Let me try and answer your questions. > > Do you need to receive SMS? If you need to receive SMS, you will need > to host your own GSM device or modem so that people can send you SMS. > > If not, you can just use internet SMS gateways like clickatell to do > the work, and post to them by HTTP, XML or email. The cost is about > 6-8 cents per SMS. There are cheaper services, but [they're] not always > reliable. If you need to host your own GSM device, you can use > software like http://www.kannel.org/ (GPL Open Source) or > http://visualtron.com/enterprise/sms-gateway. > > Regards. Thanks for the kannel and sms-gateway URLs, John: they're most welcome. Here's the reason behind my query, though: my cellular service provider lets me send/receive (from/to my handset) up to 300 domestic SMS messages per month, free of charge, including outgoing "cellular email" messages, i.e., messages of the form user@node.TLD # subject # body ... sent to the "gateway" phone number 500. But outgoing SMS to an international destination used to be 15 cents a pop, is going up soon to 25 or 30 cents. If I knew the "node.TLD" component for the PLUS, ERA, IDEA, and ORANGE cellular providers in +48-land, I could send "cellular email" rather than "international SMS" messages, and save those few cents per message -- if I knew from the first three digits of the +48 cellphone number which of those Polish carriers was involved. Until then, of course, 6 cents per SMS sent still beats 15 or 25 or 30 cents, so your info was most welcome; again, thanks. Cheers, -- tlvp ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:12:29 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: Nortel files for bankruptcy protection Message-ID: <414356.79540.qm@web52705.mail.re2.yahoo.com> TORONTO: Nortel Networks, the biggest North American maker of telephone equipment, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, after the downturn eroded its once high-flying business. The filing came a day before the Toronto-based company was due to make an interest payment of about $107 million. Nortel and a number of its affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, according to a court filing. Its shares plunged more than 76 percent to 7.5 cents in electronic pre-market trading. "Based on this filing, the board of directors must believe that not only is the fourth quarter bad, but that the first quarter is going to be just as bad or worse," said Duncan Stewart, an analyst at DSAM Consulting in Toronto. http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/14/business/14nortel.php ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:12:34 -0600 From: "Michael G. Koerner" <mgk920@dataex.com> To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu Subject: AT&T drops Appleton, WI time/temp service - local guy picks it up Message-ID: <Y92dnapub5eQtvPUnZ2dnUVZ_sbinZ2d@ntd.net> (from: http://www.postcrescent.com/section/blogs04?source=nletter-business - it's a couple of items down) "Time and t-t-t-temperature Posted by MWallenfang at 1/13/2009 3:53 PM CST on PostCrescent.com A Darboy businessman saved a 59-year-old Appleton institution. People in Appleton have been calling (920) 734-0123 since 1950 to hear the time and temperature, but AT&T shut down most of its time/temperature phone lines in Wisconsin in recent years because of declining use in the age of cell phones and Internet. Plus, there�s the high cost of upgrading equipment. The Appleton area time/temp line was turned off around Thanksgiving. Darboy resident Vern Schmitt missed it, and being a self-proclaimed phone enthusiast, he got the number from AT&T and reinstated the service in December. If you�ve called in the last few weeks to confirm just how bone chilling it is out there, you may have noticed the change. His company, D-J Telephone Systems in Appleton, picked up the bill for new equipment and phone lines. In the future, he�s thinking about taking on other sponsors to help with costs. "It was important to have back as a community service," he said. "I get 1,800 to 3,000 calls a day, depending on conditions." The bonus with Vern�s revamp: you now also now hear the day and date. I remember dialing that number for temperature information a LOT when I was a kid. Kewl that someone has stepped in to keep it going. Man, that line was in service since 1950 - (memory flow alert!) dial telephone service was cut in in Appleton in 1949 and from that time until about 1968 or 1969, one only needed to dial the last five digits of the number to connect a local call dialed from Appleton (733 or 734 numbers). 2-xxxx - Menasha-Neenah ('722') 3-xxxx - Appleton ('733') 4-xxxx - Appleton ('734') 5-xxxx - Menasha-Neenah ('725') 6-xxxx - Kaukauna ('766') 7-xxxx - Greenville ('757' - now part of the Appleton rate center) 8-xxxx - Little Chute ('788') and a bit later on 9-xxxx - Appleton ('739') That ended in the late 1960s when the local numbers ran out, with AT&T/Wisconsin Telephone then adding 731 to Appleton and 729 to Menasha/Neenah, and the local calling area was expanded to include Black Creek ('984'), Hortonville ('779'), Sherwood ('989') and Shiocton ('986') - and we've been dialing the seven digits ever since. That, too, will end in a couple of years when NPA 274 comes to the 920 area, requiring that all ten digits of the number be dialed on all calls. -- ___________________________________________ ____ Regards, | |\ ____ | | | | |\ Michael G. Koerner May they | | | | | | rise again! Appleton, Wisconsin USA | | | | | | ___________________________________________ | | | | | | _______________ ***** Moderator's Note ***** Please do not use windows-1252 as a character set! We can handle ISO-8859-1, but that's all! Bill Horne Temporary Moderator ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to Usenet, where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. All the contents of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. 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