[liberationtech] bulk sms

[Sky (Jim Schuyler)]

Oops, I believe we experienced 10 outbound SMS per minute, not per second. Whichever it was, it was a barrier for our application.

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Sky (Jim Schuyler, PhD)
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On Jan 2, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Sky (Jim Schuyler) <sky at red7.com> wrote:

> I have found email-to-SMS gateways work very well in the US. There were hiccups initially (10 years ago), but now they are rapid and delivery is reliable. For medium-volume, I like it that they are free to the sender. 
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> Yes, you have to ask each recipient in advance who their carrier is, in order to correctly address the message. I have not found any automated solution that “discovers” the carrier corresponding to a phone number.
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> I have also found that outgoing SMS (was) is limited to about 10 messages per second by some US carriers, so be aware of this if you are attempting to send via an actual phone connected to a computer. This was true more than 5 years ago, which is my last datapoint. Because of the way SMS is actually carried on the cell network, this may in fact be a limitation of the available SMS bandwidth for a single phone. That’s why we switched over to email-to-SMS years ago.
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> On Jan 2, 2015, at 7:19 AM, Nathan of Guardian <nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Richard Brooks wrote:
>>>> Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up
>>>> (or using) an Internet to SMS interface...
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>>> What about using an Android phone as the gateway device/SMS sender?
>>> There are a lot of solutions out there for that, and experience in this
>>> community deploying them.
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>>> http://smssync.ushahidi.com for example
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>> Here are a few more examples:
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>> https://github.com/anjlab/android-sms-gateway
>> https://github.com/niryariv/KalSMS
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>> All in all, if your volume is not crazy high, it is the easiest way to
>> support pretty much any network in the world, as long as you have a
>> place to keep a phone safe and charged in the local area.
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