Questions tagged [bulksms]

Bulk SMS is a mobile messaging service that allows to send high or low volumes of non-premium SMS quickly and efficiently.

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How was Twitter able to send/receive millions of SMS messages for free?

I'm working on an application that sends and receives SMS messages to and from its users. (Don't worry - it's not spam - every user of the app expects to send and receive these messages). One key aspect of the app... If a user sends a message to the…
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How does SMS gateways work?

I've been looking at systems such as txtlocal, esendex and clickatell. I need to send out a very large number of messages and ideally would like to go in at a lower level then using systems like these. Does anyone know how these SMS gateways like…
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Clickatell alternative SMS-Gateway?

We're just about to go live but Clickatell seems to be problematic. Billing AND Server issues!! A quick google search shows a long record of problems. They did however made good impression at first but now we're simply not sure - they don't seem to…
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Send and receive SMSs to a PHP script?

Can a PHP script (which can be working with a MySQL DB) send and/or receive SMSs using some sort of server-side solution? Any special server-side application, or special hardware required? And compatibility? Windows, Linux?
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How to set up an SMS gateway

I'm ambitious to setup an SMS Gateway to provide SMS capability to multiple providers in India. I want to provide the registered users the ability to add their own sender ID or even their mobile no. as sender ID (as 160By2 provide). I have already…
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How to create an SMS gateway?

I know there are lots of 3rd party sites to send bulk SMS via the internet, but if I wanted to create one myself, how would I go about it? I know how to create an SMS gateway using my mobile phone, which is very slow. Is there any other way of…
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Kannel configuration for multiple smsc

I have created multiple SMSC SMPP connection. after configuration i have send sms but sms is send with random smsc. How can i control kannel to send sms with smpp which i want to send.
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What is a SMS gateway

What exactly is and SMS gateway, are "OZEKI" and "KANNEL" the same. Also are they the only thing to send and receive sms from and through your application or you also need additional hardware - "GSM MODEM"??... Finally to you need a service…
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How to send SMS from my website? Only sending SMS is required, not receiving

I want to send SMS to a group of phone numbers in my database, from my website. Can you please guide me on how to do it, which are the best and reliable SMS api in php which I can integrate? I want to send SMS only in India, if anyone has experience…
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Kannel - efficiency & bulk sms support

These are the things I want know. 1.Is there a way to send bulk messages using kannel? 2.We can use fakesmsc in the following way, but it sends the same sms to same number, multiple times fakesmsc -r port -i interval -m count "from to text your…
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Issue with sending sms using twilio in my rails app

I am building a rails application (based out of India) wherein I need to send sms to users whose bookings are confirmed. I am using a trial account on Twilio for this purpose. However, when I try to send sms, the status always shows as 'pending' and…
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How to use Twilio on REST client like Postman

Now I am at Stack Overflow as I could not get a simple answer elsewhere for my problem. I need to send multiple messages with Twilio using Postman. I need to know the script and procedure how to do it. I would prefer JSON(application/json) under…
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how reliable is sending text messages from email

How reliable is it to send text messages (sms) from an email client mail-to-sms gateway of a number? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways SMS in general are relatively reliable, I do know that they are not guaranteed with time though,…
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Amazon SNS with java, Send group SMS to all over the world

I am trying to integrate send promotional SMS messages to customers. For this can I use amazon SNS, and can I integrate this SNS with my web application? I am using java and I want send group SMS with one click in my web application. Also, is there…
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Offline/Desktop Application that supports Send & Receive SMS using AT Commands in C#

I would like to build an offline desktop application that could carry out the basic sms functions with the usage of a GSM modem. I currently have a HUAWEI modem which was given to me by the telco company to perform wireless surfing and sms messaging…
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