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| Jing Guo New member Username: Jingguo Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2012 |
like the subject, I wonder if there's is any difference or what do I need to do to send the same content faster to a group of recipient.  | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 4221 Registered: 08-2008 |
The way SMS works, each message has a single recipient. So if you are sending one message to 10 recipients, that is really 10 messages. Performance wise, it is no different if one message is submitted to a list of 10 recipients, or 10 messages are submitted to 1 recipient each. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Jing Guo New member Username: Jingguo Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2012 |
Hi Des, Thanks so much for you explanation, so will there be better performance if i send MMS instead of SMS. | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 4222 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Jing Guo, With MMS you can send one message to multiple recipients in a single transaction, but it does usually take longer to send an MMS. (And your mobile operator will probably charge you once for each recipient.) Note that different versions of NowSMS handle sending MMS messages via a modem connection with some differences. In the early days of MMS, we had problems with some operator systems in that they had a limit of how many recipients they would accept for an MMS message. So, we set a default limit of 5 recipients per MMS when sending out via a modem connection. This means that if you send to 10 recipients, the recipient list will be split into two, with two messages being sent to 5 recipients each. Earlier this year, we decided that this default limit was too low and changed it to 20 recipients (version 2012.06.19 and later). This default limit can be adjusted by editing the configuration file for the outbound MMS routing ... /VASPOUT/routename/VASP.INI. Under the [VASP] header, specify MaxRecips=### to adjust this per MMS message recipient limit. If you do adjust this limit, be sure to test with your mobile operator to make sure you do not exceed any limits they impose. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Jing Guo New member Username: Jingguo Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2012 |
Hi Des, Information you provided is so helpful! Last thing I want to make sure is if i'm using the correct way to send group MMS. Our application uses http request to communicate with NowSMS. so I separate list of recipients with comma eg. PhoneNum=num1,num2,num3 in query string parameter. Is this the right way to send to MMS faster than sending them one by one? Thanks so much Des, --- Jing | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 4223 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Jing, Sorry for the delay in response. You are correct. Use a list with comma separated values. (PhoneNumber=num1,num2,num3) -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Jing Guo New member Username: Jingguo Post Number: 4 Registered: 10-2012 |
No you're doing a great job!~ While I successfully send out MMS to multiple recipients, however they can see each other's number in the recipient list in the MMS message. I dont want to disclose the numbers, is there a way to work around this? Have a nice weekend Des, Jing | |||
| Jing Guo New member Username: Jingguo Post Number: 5 Registered: 10-2012 |
I find a thread and it works great ! thx ! http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/24296.html | |||
