User / Company Name in sender field

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Sandy D'Costa
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Username: Sandydc

Post Number: 4
Registered: 03-2009
Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 07:14 am:   

Can i use User / Company name in sender field while sending SMS rather than mobile number assigned to GSM Modem.
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 637
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 02:56 pm:   

Hi Sandy,

What you're referring to is known as alphanumeric sender support.

Some SMS service providers support this ... but when they do, it is only available in some countries. The reason for this limited availability is that many mobile operators have commercial policies against messages that it is not possible to reply to.

That said, it is not technically possible to override the sender address when sending messages with a GSM modem. When sending messages with a GSM modem, there is no support in the protocol to insert a sender address at all ... the mobile operator always inserts the phone number associated with the SIM card in the modem as the sender address when it processes the message.

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Des
NowSMS Support