Programming to send text message to cell phone or pager

[fechen]

I want to write a command-line Window-based application which can send text message to cell phone or pager.
The simpler, the better.

Please help me with some clue, such as SDK/package required, technology name, etc. I am totally blind in this.

Thanks,

 

[wbeetge]

It's really not that complicated.

The providers of the services have SMS Servers that accept email messages (in the case of phones) - Just find out what is the email addresses for those servers and sent it the message as they request the format to be:

The header may be the Cell number and the body the message.
(This method does not guarantee delivery or speed of the delivery of the message to the recipient - but is normally free)

There are other methods as well - they could also provide a service where they have a SMS server that does not look at cell SMS messages at all, but only look at FTP'd text files to the server. This service would almost always not be free, but you are quaranteed that your SMS messages are sent much quicker and because you FTP the file over, you also know if the file arrived at their server.

We used radio links from our server to the provider's servers to speed up the transission of the text files.

Investigate what your providers use and contact them for the information.

Graham.

 

[fechen]

Thanks, Graham. that's really helpful.