Re: Send email as a text to cell phone

Awhile back there was a Twitter interface for I. Aaron Bartell maybe? Set the Twitter app on their phone to show notifications it would be the same as text as long as they had data coverage.

On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:39 PM, 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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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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