Dear All This is Jignesh Kakkad from India
I am working in Wireless domain and related to SMS projects We do provide SMS connectivity where user can send SMS from the WEB site let me know if any is intersted for the same? Looking forward for your reply Regards jiggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawson, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:06 AM Subject: RE: SMS Gateway Questions > We recently setup a deal with an SMS provider to sent emergency alerts to > our students and staff. Our part of the deal has us paying for unlimited > SMS messages for a given price. > > However, our school does not pay for the recipients to receive the > messages. The recipient is responsible for paying to receive the > messages. > > Although there are instances where the recipient doesn't pay, such as > requesting an account status message from your own cell provider, most of > the time, in the US, you pay to send and you pay to receive. > > You could think of it as a double-payment for a single message: The sender > pays to send the message and the recipient pays to receive the messages. > Therefore, a single message can cost a total of $0.40 for the full trip. > > In our case, we let the students/staff opt-in to receive the messages. We > are not going to force a $0.20 message on anyone. You would not believe > how bent people can get when forced to pay $0.20. > > Fortunately, my wife and I are on Sprint's unlimited messaging. It costs > us $30/month extra, but we send/receive a few thousand messages each > month. > > m!ke > > _____ > > From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tue 5/27/2008 11:15 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: SMS Gateway Questions > > > > When you send like that, who pays for the message? I'm pretty > certain that the phone companies in teh USA arent working as charities > adn will bill SOMONE for every message. So that means unless you have > a business relationship with att.com ot accept billing from the, your > recipient is going to pay. > > That may or may not be a good thing. > > Here in Australia it would be suicide for most applications to expect > your recipients to pay for the message. > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com <http://afpwebworks.com/> > ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306807 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
