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| slocoach Unregistered guest |
Can anyone give me a few names of some SMSC's that provide MMS sending support in North America? In a nutshell, I would like to offer my own songs(i'm a producer) via my website for ringtones. I want to have the enduser enter their cell phone number, select the ringtone they want, and have it sent to their phone. Any help with my quest is very appreciated. Thanks! | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 3229 Registered: 10-2002 |
Our experience has been that the major GSM/GPRS carriers in North America (T-Mobile, Cingular, ATTWS) are open to message delivery from external MMSCs. To deliver MMS messages through NowSMS to these carriers requires an SMSC connection that supports binary SMS. Unfortunately, there is a lack of inter-carrier binary SMS support in the US, so a GSM modem will not work. You'd need an SMS service provider that supports binary SMS. I've used MobileWay for sending to the US. I believe that Clickatell is now working again for binary SMS into the US (they weren't before). But, the problem with having people enter their phone number on a web site is that you're going to get charged for sending a message each time they request something. And there are plenty of idiots on the internet who will try to exploit your service and drive up your bills. If you're looking for a low budget approach to make your own content available, you could just put your content on a web server, and then have people key a URL into their phone to access the content. It's just a matter of getting the MIME types right. However, if you want to sell this content, that's a different story. Then you want to use premium rate SMS. This is where a user gets charged for receiving content from you. So every time you send a message, the recipient gets charged for it. For that, you'd have to find a premium rate SMS service provider in the US. I haven't had any direct experience with any of the current providers, but I've seen a lot of claims ... best to search Google with keywords of premium rate USA. There's just one consideration with premium rate (well, there are others), and that is that the idea of putting up a web site and asking the user to put in their phone number is a bit too trusting. There will be people that enter the phone numbers of others, and this can end up causing you (and your service provider) a lot of grief. It is better to have a system where the content requester sends you an SMS, and you reply back to the SMS with content. It's still not foolproof, but you're not opening yourself up to as many potential problems. -bn | |||
