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An SMS gateway is a way of sending a text message with or without using a mobile (cell) phone. Specifically, it is a device or service offering SMS transit, transforming messages to mobile network traffic from other media, or vice versa, allowing transmission or receipt of SMS messages with or without cell phone.

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Cheapest way to send SMS for number verification?

My application needs to verify phone numbers that are provided by the user. What is the absolute cheapest way to send an SMS to a phone? Which company/API should I go to? I'm not looking for a hack solution to send out 10 SMS a month kind of thing,…
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Redirect to external URL with return in laravel

I am trying to send one time password to a user using SMS INDIA HUB API. For that purpose I need to redirect to a URL…
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How to send sms programmatically?

Are there any sites that offer the ability to send SMS for free? How do they do it? How am I able to send SMS programmatically?
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Can I send SMS Messages from a C# Application?

I'm looking to build a program that would allow me to send SMS messages directly from the C# Application. I intend to build an 'Automatic Appointment Reminder' system that would automatically send SMS messages to recipients' mobile phones notifying…
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SMS registration like in the mobile app: whatsapp

I'm wondering how these sms-registration mechanisms work. I searched on the internet, but the problem is there are so much sms-providers which want to sell online-sms services, so i can't find anything... Question: How does this work: Set your…
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How can I send verfication codes to mobile numbers in node.js? (Like nodemailer, but for SMS)

I have sent confirmation e-mails to users by using nodemailer for my project. It is working fine. Now I am looking to send verification codes to mobile numbers from node.js, but I don’t know how to do that. Is there any module to send verification…
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What is the maximum SMS message length?

What is the maximum SMS message length when sent through the Clickatell API for English and Spanish messages? Is there is a difference between English and Spanish message lengths, since Spanish may contain Unicode characters?
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How to pass spaces in a REST call using HttpGet in java

I am sending a call to a SMS gateway using their REST API. Everything is fine when I send a simple word like 'Hello', but if I add a space then I got in trouble. This because the URI cannot contain spaces. What is the proper way to do what I need to…
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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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Receive SMS messages in a web application in the US on a hosted server

I'm trying to build a simple web application that will allow people to send SMS messages FROM their mobile phone TO my application. I've seen this question asked before: Receive SMS messages by web application Receiving a SMS message in a .NET…
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how to send HTTP request by GET method in PHP to another website

I'm developing a web application for sending SMS to mobile from website like 160by2. I can prepare the URL required for the HTTP GET request as mentioned in the API provided by the SMS Gateway provider smslane.com, here is the link for the API. how…
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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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How to use SAR TLVs for message concatenation in opensmppbox? Can it even be done?

From a cursory overview of the source code it seems that opensmppbox only supports message concatenation with UDH. Is it possible to make it understand messages concatenated with SAR TLVs? (i.e., sar_msg_ref_num, sar_total_segments,…
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free sms gateway for .Net client

Does anyone know any good free sms gateway which can be accessed using the C# client? I also need some C# sample wrappers for interacting with the sms gateway for sending and receiving the SMSs. Thanks in advance. S.
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