When you are starting up / bootstrapping, you need to make sure you save up each and every penny on anything / everything, even if that means getting your hands dirty and doing things yourself. Most of the time, web applications need to be SMS-abled, viz..send and receive text messages, and while a lot of solutions already exist, they tend to be expensive for you (and / or your users).
- The special numbers provided by some operators charge the sms senders exorbitantly (approximately 4-5 times the normal text rates). This definitely isn’t very lucrative to your users to start interacting with your application via text messaging
- The rates for sending and receiving messages using some gateway (Clickatell for example), would set you back by a decently large sum of money, even if you are just receiving messages (and sending less)
Hence, it is always a good idea to use some existing SMS gateway to send out messages, while one could easily take care of the receiving part themselves.
In the next part of this series, I will do a detailed step-by-step tutorial on making Gammu work on Ubuntu 8.04 with a Nokia phone (6300) over Bluetooth.
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Hey I am waiting for your next article of this “gammu” series.
Thanks in advance. :)
Gammu is powerfull apps for sms gateway, I’m using gammu and kalkun as web base sms backend :D, for more details please visit my blog :)