[157177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wired access to SMS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Van Dolson)
Tue Oct 9 18:23:00 2012
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:22:00 -0700
From: Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGW19KHSuccc+bDR1Gsrgep=X2Km6bDz5N2BWjY=RiY2RQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 06:17:26PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:35:37PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
> >> Alternately, I can also consider a wireless carrier that can provide
> >> two SIM-based phones with the same phone number for sending and
> >> receiving SMS messages. I'd put the sims in a pair of modems and
> >> manage deduplication of the received messages in software.
> >
> > We use the MultiTech MultiModem iSMS SF-100G linked up to an AT&T
> > Wireless account.
> >
> > It has a RESTful API and can handle both transmission and reception of
> > text messages.
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> Have you figured out how to get AT&T to give you two SIMs with the
> same phone number? I'm using a different set of multitech modems now
> but I need the same, I guess the terminology is "SMS long code," at
> both sites.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
Sorry, Bill -- not something we've had a need for so have never tried.
:)
Ray
