I'll share a couple of our experiences with text messaging for our university even though we didn't actually program anything.
We use a third-party provider to send our messages, TextCaster. They claim to hold the patent on using a text message to authenticate a person. For example, the process of sending a code to a phone, to confirm the identity of a person is patented by TextCaster. So, if your system is using this process, you may want to make sure it doesn't infringe on their patent. That said... We have our biggest problem with ATT. ATT will not guarantee delivery of messages send in batches. They will not whitelist messaging providers for fear of spimming their clients. We have sent several emergency text messages regarding weather-related issues. Many of our students and employees have complained that they received text messages 30 minutes late, or not at all. Most, if not all, of these people were using ATT. (I'm on Sprint and have never had any issues.) Keep in mind that we only have about 700 subscribers for our text alerts. So, if ATT can't/won't deliver 700 text messages, I would be surprised they would do so with 100,000 messages. This isn't directly related to your issue, but I wanted to point out our problems with ATT. YMMV m!ke -----Original Message----- From: Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Bulk SMS out. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Hogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:38 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: SOT: Bulk SMS out. > > All, > > I need to send ~100K SMS messages out a day (No worries, not spam.) I > am looking at two options. The first is buying a server solution and > the second is using a web service. If I chose the server solution I > would have to contract with the carriers and call their APIs directly. > The cost for a web service is too much. > > Has anyone here done this on this scale before? Anyone know of any > server solutions, lower cost web services, or any other resources you > can point out? > > Initial setup resources and monthly fees are not as important as per > message cost; however, both of course are not unlimited. This is > MISSION Critical ENTERPRISE scale and must perform as such. > > Thanks, > B Bryan, I would suggest looking into a SMSC (SMS Aggretagor) to manage connectivity to the carriers. We currently use OpenMarket (www.openmarket.com) as our SMSC. We are currently pushing in the range of ~150k per day and climbing. They offer connectivity via SMPP, which you can utilize the CF Event gateway. HTH, Rich Kroll ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:301788 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
