On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:24:06PM -0400, Peter Beckman wrote: > > Currently my script only works for US wireless vendors who provide an > > email interface to sending SMS - from the research I've done, most UK > > vendors don't provide this, would I then need to use a SMS gateway to > > send messages to UK numbers? Is the US SMS format "standardized" yet? I > > seem to recall that being one of the reasons SMS was so slow to take off. > No. +1-212-555-1212 is US, +44-2345-6523 is UK....
SMS slow to take off, ahh you mean in the US where they adopted a proprietry system (CDMA) while almost everywhere else adopted GSM. Now there is GSM appearing in the US and SMS comes as part of it. Of course it's also only very recently there's been any kind of inter network SMS interconnects (directly). SMS has been well established for YEARS in Europe (I sent my first SMS in around 92 I think, though I was working for Cellnet [now O2] at the time, which is slightly ahead of the market in general). Steve -- NetTek Ltd Phone/Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 SMS steve-epage (at) gbnet.net [body] gpg 1024D/468952DB 2001-09-19
