Re: [nznog] Email to SMS gateway

16 Apr 2007

      A serial dialup modem and a Pager from Telecom.

AJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Jasper Bryant-Greene [mailto:j(a)digiweb.net.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:19 a.m.
To: Philip D'Ath
Cc: NZ Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: [nznog] Email to SMS gateway

On this - we have found SMS to be a bit unreliable lately, with messages
being delivered hours late or not at all. I am aware that SMS does not
provide "guaranteed delivery" - what methods are others on this list
using to send alerts reliably?

Cheers
Jasper

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 11:10 +1200, Philip D'Ath wrote:
...
We looked briefly at one of the free Vodafone services like this.
There
was a rate limit of something like 10 messages per day (don't recall
exact number), and then the excess get dropped.  In our case we went
for
Vodafone's commercial service to make sure we got all our monitoring
TXT's.
-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Collinson [mailto:scollinson(a)quicksilver.net.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:01 a.m.
To: Dan Clark
Cc: NZ Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: [nznog] Email to SMS gateway
A friend of mine at Vodafone tells me it costs 20c per message 
received.  However, it is not a promoted service and may be
discontinued
at any time.
Dan Clark wrote:
...
I have investigated options in the past with these types of service,
...
...
you may need to check that your not getting charged per message 
received, as this is now possible with the opt-in type of service.
Well worth trying though no doubt.
Dan
On 4/17/07, *Clark Mills* mailto:c.mills(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
Hi all.
I read this on one of our internal mailing lists, thought it
might
    be of
    interest / use.  We use something like this for server
monitoring
    but it's not
    so good if your email server / network is down, aside from the
    potential
    lagginess [SP?] that sometimes occurs with the SMS service.
Still, it may have some value to you.
Of course if any information below is wrong, please let me know.
Cheers...  Clark
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If you are on Vodafone, you can 'register' you phone by texting
    the letter R to
    the number 901.  You should then get back a 'you are registered
    etc' welcome
    message.
Once your phone is registered anyone/thing can send you a txt by
    using an email
    address such as:
6421123456(a)sms.vodafone.net.nz
    mailto:6421123456(a)sms.vodafone.net.nz
Where your mobile number is presumed to be 021-123456.
As far as I know, there is no charge for this service.
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Re: [nznog] Email to SMS gateway

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