Re: Send email as a text to cell phone

I don't think you can get cheaper than Twilio. At .0075c a message! I know
you said you weren't looking for a commercial product but we (Arpeggio)
have a Twilio product that can have you sending messages in less than 10
minutes and it's really inexpensive. At the very least you can try it out
and see if Twilio works for you. You can use it to receive messages and
make text to voice calls too. Its all IP based so no extra hardware.
On Dec 11, 2015 00:39, "Roger Harman" <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Rob. Twilio is one that I saw.

For now, I think I can work in a pretty controlled environment -
5555555555@xxxxxxxxxxxxx as the phones should be company issued. Just
thinking down the road that (hopefully) the usage of this may really
explode. I think the sales team will love it. If so, a subscription
service becomes more viable.

Need to talk to our telephone switch guy to see if I might be able to
interface with that directly or thru some PC intermediary and just send the
message.

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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Send email as a text to cell phone

Roger,

I am not in my home office... but I can tell you that Twilio will
allow you to sms for like .002 cents... yes... that is two tenths of a
penny.

If I was in my home office, I had another api for a company that
would translate the number to a provider. then you can email for free
after the first use. I think it was a few pennies or less per number.
They are considered to be a SMS Gateway.

I know Twilio uses a escrow system, you charge it up and recharge
when the bucket runs low.

Twilio can do many many things... I also use it along with OpenVBX
to run a phone system for a small office.

https://www.twilio.com/

After a quick google... TextMagic is the SMS Gateway... I think
TextMagic is who I used.

But then you have to match the Carrier String to that in a table you
keep that matches Carriers to domain names...

Such as "T-Mobile" to "tmomail.com"

If you know the Carrier, which if it is a controlled group, get the info
up front when you get the cell number. some carriers it is as simply as
number@xxxxxxxxxx. Others have number prefixes or suffixes. You can
google each carriers policy on sending an email to an sms text message.

Hope that helps...


On 2015-12-10 16:46, Roger Harman wrote:

As a side project, I'd like to investigate sending some notifications to

sales reps via text message. Currently, we send emails.

Any recommendations for a source/api to retrieve the carrier for a given

number? I've seen a couple via Google but wondering if anyone has
real-world experience with this.

It has to be a VERY low (or no) cost implementation - at least for now.

No commercial products.

Thanks.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

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