RE: {bb} patch to use sms_client for SMS paging

["Craig Nuttall" <admin@kewl.com.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com]On Behalf Of Boyd,
> Stephen W Mr US Army Strategic and Advanced Computing Center
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 1999 2:39 am
> To: 'bb@bb4.com'
> Subject: RE: {bb} patch to use sms_client for SMS paging
>
>
> Quoth the Craig Nuttall:
> >Maybe Sean would be interested in standardising on this rather
> than Kermit
> ????
>
> Except SMS/GSM isn't available globally. Specifically, in the US, GSM
> coverage is patchy at best. Whereas Kermit works with any
> phone... unless I
> have my protocols wrong..

--- snip from website ---

SMS Client is a UNIX command line based utility which allows you to send SMS
messages to mobile phones and pagers. This software has been written and
tested on Linux however a number of users have reported success running
under both AIX and Solaris. SMS Client currently supports a wide variety of
services providers and protocols:


Provider		Protocol  		Country
Cellnet		TAP  			UK
Vodafone UK		Proprietary		UK
Vodafone AU		Proprietary  	Australia
Orange		Proprietary  	UK
Pageone  		Proprietary  	UK
Minicall  		Pageone  		UK
Vodacom  		Proprietary  	South Africa
MTN  			Proprietary  	South Africa
One2one  		Proprietary  	UK
Vodapage  		Proprietary  	UK
BTEasyreach		TAP  			UK
TIM  			Proprietary  	Italy
Detemobil - D1	TAP  			Germany
Azcom  		TAP  			US
Ampi  		TAP  			US Alabama
Telstra  		TAP  			Australia
PTT/KPN Telcom	Proprietary  	Netherlands
Libertel  		Proprietary  	Netherlands
Answer  		Proprietary  	New Zealand
Proximus  		Proprietary  	Belgium
Europolitan  	CIMD  		Sweden
 			SNPP
Swisscom  		UCP  			Switzerland
Telenor  		UCP  			Norway
D2  			UCP  			Germany
EPLUS  		TAP  			Germany
VoiceStream  	TAP  			US
Telecom NZ  	TAP  			New Zealand
BTMessageMaster  	TAP  			UK
Cellnet Web  	Proprietary Web 	UK
Orange Web  	Proprietary Web 	UK
Proximus Web  	Proprietary Web
AT&T Web  		Proprietary Web 	US
Nextel Web  	Proprietary Web
Pagenet Web  	Proprietary Web

--- end snip ---

it works on any phone, and already has the interfaces written to many
services, of course you can also write your own interfaces if you use a
different paging service. It is not specifically GSM, it is SMS (short
message service) which is a service rather than a protocol.

As I see it, SMS-client would be an ideal replacement to Kermit for the
following reasons;
Like BB it has a developers mailing list (read developed by the end user)
It deals with the many protocols, so BB only needs to provide the input to
SMS-client
NO more paging issues on the BB list :-) (handled by SMS-client)
The author is interested in expanding the "drivers list" (service specific
interfaces)
It worked for me first time :-)

I admit that I am not an expert in this field, I maintain my own ISP, I'm
semi confident with Linux and I dabble in perl. It took many days of cursing
to get BB/Kermit paging through my Telco, I still see limitations and
sometimes messages do not get sent. I installed SMS-client and sent my first
successful page within one hour, so I think that would enhance the
satisfaction of brothers new to BB.

The other thing is that I can now consider a web interface to page ANY pager
or Mobile phone on ANY service (ok, so we still have to find the
knowledgable person in OPTUS before we can write a driver, but it is not
impossible)

That is the way I see it, it is only my opinion and I don't bite if you want
to disagree, after all, what good is shared development without end user
opinion :-)

Kind regards
Craig

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