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Yes they do.

We used to send overdue payment reminders by email and had moderate
response.

We changed to text message and got a considerable increase in response.
That was a few years ago and yes the response has decreased slightly but
still in front of what email was achieving.

We now use a combination of email and text message depending on the
outstanding amount and length overdue.

Cheers

Don





From: "Brad Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 07/11/2022 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: send text msg to phone from IBM i
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



You know, here's my question about this.

Everyone has smart phones now. What's the difference between getting an
alert for a text or an email? Do people just ignore email alerts?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 7:25 AM Rolf Schillinger
<rolf.schillinger@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Jay,
I, too, think that the Web API route is the best. But when I last sent
SMS
without a web api, I used a cellphone connected to USB that worked like
a
standard Hayes Modem. It was just a matter of connection to it via the
USB/serial port and sending 2 or three AT commands, I think one of them
was
AT+CMGS. There's also real GSM modems that connect via serial or usb and
they're still to be bought and in use for embedded systems stuff.
Still, save yourself the hassle and go the web api route, don't forget:
it's very hard to make your text sending redundant with your own
infrastructure.
Best regards, RS

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 12:30 AM Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I know you can send a txt msg with the SNDSMTPEMM command if you know
the
phone number's carrier...

Aside from calling a 3rd party web api, is there a way to send text
messages from the IBM i to a phone number if you don't know the
carrier?


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