Re: general questions...

"Dean Earley" <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:00:50 -0000 (GMT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.sms.tsms
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> hi all,

Hello

> 1) i think i don't understand how this sms thing works. do i have to
> choose the right smsc for each message depending on what recipient i
> send the message to? for example: do i have to choose d1 smsc if i send
> a sms to a user with d1 phone; or eplus if i want to send a message to a
> eplus phone? or is it just because of costs?
> because my own cellphone has just one smsc number and i can send sms to
> every network...?!

This depends on the SMSC.
The one i use allows me to send to any mobile phone number (Cellnet in the
UK)

> 2) another weird thing: i put the smsc number from my cellphone to
> sms_client. if i run sms_client it says "response - BUSY" but from my
> cellphone it works...?! i tried it several times - always busy...

The phone doesn't dial it liek a normal phone call.
I'm not sure exactly what it does do though :)

> 3) the worst of all: sms_client tells me sometimes "message successfully
> send" but my phone does not recieve the message. maybe the smsc is
> rejecting my message? if so, it doesn't tell my modem any error code,
> does it?

This is most likely the SMSC loosing it if it says it was successful to
SMSClient

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