Re: Deliver Notification of concatenated msgs

Inline as [JS]
thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "See Chun Yan" <[email protected]>
To: "Andreas Fink" <[email protected]>; "Jeetendra Singh"
<[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: Deliver Notification of concatenated msgs


> Hi all,
>
>    our experience is a little different as we are not using Kannel
>    to connect directly to SMSC.
>
>    For e.g. EMS, it uses concatenated SMS. We get a deliver status
>    report for each SMS. Hence we have to ensure that we receive
>    all reports before generating CDR records. I am not sure
>    if you mean delivery notification as the deliver status report to
>    tell you that the handset receives the SMS successfully or the
>    submission to SMSC is successful.


[JS] I think SUBMISSION to SMSC for each segment is ALWAYS acked by SMSC
separately. What i was interested in is deliver status report for HANDSET???


>
>    It is then the job of the handset to intelligently assemble those SMS.
>
> > >This may not be the right platform to raise this question but am sure
> > >somebody out there can help.
> > >
> > >I wanted to know that when submitting  concatenated short messages to a
> > >SMSC, how many Delivery Notifications do I expect from SMSC?  Does SMSC
> > >reply with only one Delivery Notification or it replies with separate
> > >Delivery Notification for every slice?
> > >Does this depend on the capability of the Handset to display a
concatenated
> > >short message as a single message?
> >
> > The code which splits SMS into individual SMS's puts the DLR request
> > on the first segment but not on the following ones. This means if a
> > user submits one SMS which gets split internally and invisibly
> > inside Kannel and gets sent to the SMSC, the user gets one delivery
> > notification on reception of the first message.


[JS] Why should Kannel be doing anything of this sort? What happens to the
deliver status report of other segments in such a case if SMSC provides
separate deliver status reports for each segment (This was my question in
first place. Can somebody please confirm the SMSC behaviour ?)


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