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Alternatives to TAP for Outage Alerts?

Posted by Cliff on from the early-warning-systems dept.

anton[1452] asks: "AT&T Wireless has discontinued TAP dialup access to text messaging. I have used this for years to send alerts in the event of network outages. The alternatives they offer are not free and worse, require network connections - making them useless for my needs. Does anyone have a better way to do this without resorting to carrying a separate pager?"

2 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Just use dialup by kinema · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with email gateways is you have no way of knowing for sure if the email was recived, understood, acted upon and the SMS message was acutally sent.

  2. EFI Unimobile by More+Trouble · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In my reading, it sounds like AT&T has outsourced their TAP interface to EFI Unimobile. See the EFI Unimobile page on the subject. I guess it will cost, while AT&T's direct TAP number was probably free. However, it does sound like it will still be useful for sending alerts about your network.

    :w