Re: charset question (Greek)

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:51:08PM +0100, Andreas Fink wrote:
> The advantage of this solution is that there is much less processing 
> power needed in bearerbox and the cpu intensive tasks would be done 
> in SMSBox which can be load shared easily. Also routing can work more 
> efficiently as you would never have to think about recoding. The 
> binary format is as close to GSM as it can be so every SMS protocol 
> should be supportable.

Hmm... I think one of the problems is that some SMSC protocols try to 
work around the limitations of the GSM SMS encoding.  For example, SMPP
has a special encoding for WAP datagrams, and it seems to be trying to
become a generic datagram service.  I think we can no longer assume
that there is a GSM network behind every SMSC.  I expect that SMS over
GPRS will be much more flexible than SMS over GSM.

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