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Re: SMS text messages

• Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> Mar 01, 2002
• 500 views

jordah ferguson <jorfergie03 at yahoo.com> writes:
> hi all,
> this may seem an unimportant or offtopic question but i was wondering wether
> any one
knows
> how SMS messages are sent, is it like normal emails, coz i want to write a
> program that
can
> send SMS and receive them. Any expert out there to help me, coz previously
> here in
uganda,
> to send an sms message you would have to write the phone number followed by
> the
> address of the phone service provider
>
> eg if my phone no. was 077633952, to send an sms through mail i would have to
> type the
destination address
> as 077633952 at mtnconnect.co.ug
> mtnconnect.co.ug being the address of the service provider

SMS messages are sent inside the GSM system. There's no way you can send them
from internet except some gateway that the operator provides. Eg. operators here
in Czech provide WWW interface and e-mail interface as you described. However,
it's their bussines so some of them puts some restrictions. You can make your
own
solution by plugging your GSM phone to a computer a write a program to send
incoming mails as SMS to some number, but you'll have to pay the fees for
sending.

    Nartub