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SMS-to-Internet Gateways?

Posted by Cliff on from the cool-DIY-projects dept.

starrynights asks: "I am planning to make an on-campus communication system and i need to find a free SMS Gateway. Can anyone give me any information on this?" Interesting thought. It might make an even better do-it-yourself type project. What would you need, aside from a computer with an internet connection, to build something like this on your own?

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  1. Re:ICQ or DIY by Gordonjcp · · Score: 4, Interesting
    What I did a while ago was I got an old Nokia 8110 phone, which I had a serial cable for. Now Gnokii doesn't support its wierd-ass proprietary data format for using it as a modem, but sms's quite happily through it. Then I went to one of the many little corner shops that sell pay-as-you-go sim cards, and stuck one of those in with about £20 credit. If you use Orange (at least in the UK) and you put £50 into a prepaid phone, you get cheaper sms and calls. At about 5p per message, the £20 lasts for quite a while.

    Of course, this was more for sending status messages, so it wasn't sending that often. It was handy being able to sms a password and command to the pc, though.