# Any Experience with SMS Gateways?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-experience-with-sms-gateways/260007>\
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**Created:** [May 11, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-experience-with-sms-gateways/260007 "2008-05-11T16:10:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yeldarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/51bf81/32.png) [@Yeldarb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yeldarb)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-experience-with-sms-gateways/260007/1 "2008-05-11T16:10:26Z")

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I have a client who wants me to write him a webapp that will need to both send SMS messages and receive replies to the texts. Anyone know of a good company that offers this service for a reasonable price? I know you can send them via email (which is what I have always done in the past) but I don’t think that allows people to reply to the messages.

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**Author:** ![Esherido](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/esherido/32/2158_2.png) [@Esherido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esherido)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-experience-with-sms-gateways/260007/2 "2008-05-11T16:17:26Z")

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I’m pretty sure doing this kind of stuff requires a fair amount of money. If you want a shortcode it would be even more.

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**Author:** ![Loyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@Loyx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Loyx)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-experience-with-sms-gateways/260007/3 "2008-05-11T21:10:45Z")

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To do that you need an IP\<—\>GSM gateway.

You can pay to get one of \*\*[THES\*\*E or [URL=“http://www.ozekisms.com/sms-gateway-sms-api-sms-sdk/index.php?owpn=193”] **THIS** ](http://gateway.qarchive.org/) (see the prices) and use it with an GSM modem or if you have a Server/PC under Linux you can do it for free (blessed penguin)…

You only need this app:

[**Alamin GSGC**](http://linux.com.hk/penguin/man/1/gsgc.html)(Client)  
**[Alamin Gateway\*\* (Server)—\>\*\*[COLOR=DarkOliveGreen][URL=“http://www.alamin.org/en/index.html”]Chek the FAQ’s](http://www.alamin.org/en/index.html)[/COLOR]**

and a simply mobile phone with [GNOKII](http://www.gnokii.org) connected to your Linux Server/PC… The next step is programming your app…

Never tested it but that kind of apps are well-known in the telematics industry

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**Author:** ![hl1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/hl1/32/849_2.png) [@hl1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hl1)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-experience-with-sms-gateways/260007/4 "2008-05-12T03:17:01Z")

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Just as an aside, they can reply to the email based text messages. Good info though Loyx, thanks!

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**Author:** ![Yeldarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/51bf81/32.png) [@Yeldarb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yeldarb)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-experience-with-sms-gateways/260007/5 "2008-05-12T14:02:02Z")

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Loyx, thanks for the info. =)

Do you know if any I would encounter any problems with the phone companies if I was sending a couple of thousand texts per day via a GSM modem like that?

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**Author:** ![Loyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@Loyx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Loyx)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-experience-with-sms-gateways/260007/6 "2008-05-12T23:04:50Z")

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Dont worry, I dont think it so… In fact you r paying that SMS’s… and it’s good for the companies… xD

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**Author:** ![Loyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@Loyx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Loyx)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-experience-with-sms-gateways/260007/7 "2008-05-20T16:34:48Z")

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[quote=motionman95;2325337][If you use vb it’s easy. \<----Link](http://www.andreavb.com/forum/news/viewtopic_5824.html)  
[Link 2 \<—Link](http://www.developershome.com/sms/)[/quote]

Hey the second link you posted is incredible… [http://www.kannel.org/](http://www.kannel.org/) Another opensource gsm\<–\>IP gateway… and still in development!

Thanx for the info!