Have you looked at Google Voice much? I have mine set up to SMS all my devices, including email delivery, and can enable/disable devices as needed. The big benefit, is that I have an inbox full of all my old inbound and outbound text messages.
It might be that I am missing a key element, but it looks like you want a virtual (VoIP) SMS number, and be able to decide which devices in the US receive the messages. On Oct 9, 2012 12:56 PM, "Lyle Giese" <l...@lcrcomputer.net> wrote: > On 10/09/12 14:35, William Herrin wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I'm looking for a way to do wireline access to send and receive >> cellular phone short message service (SMS) messages. Despite all my >> google-fu, I have had limited luck finding anyone that meets my needs, >> so I'm hoping someone here has found the path through. My main >> criteria are: >> >> >> 1. Low quantity, high reliability. I'll want a few dozen phone numbers >> and effectively I'll be sending to and receiving from phones I own. >> 2. Wireline delivery to Honolulu and Northern Virginia. Dynamically >> move numbers between the two locations for failover purposes. >> 3. U.S. based carrier. Tying in to the SMS system via Europe isn't >> acceptable to my customer. >> 4. Solution must reach phones on all U.S. cellular carriers. >> 5. Price is a very distant fifth criteria to the preceding four. >> >> I can consider Internet based systems where the provider uses U.S. >> based facilities and ties in to a U.S. phone network, provided that my >> standards of reliability and redundancy are met by their >> infrastructure. >> >> Alternately, I can also consider a wireless carrier that can provide >> two SIM-based phones with the same phone number for sending and >> receiving SMS messages. I'd put the sims in a pair of modems and >> manage deduplication of the received messages in software. >> >> >> Has anybody had any luck with this kind of requirement? Which vendors >> should I talk to and who at the vendor? >> >> Thanks, >> Bill Herrin >> >> >> If these are your phones, you will be controlling the carrier. If they > are all one carrier, you can find out how to send to that carrier. For > other uses where you don't control the carrier, it becomes a nightmare and > where you may want to get a service provider to do that for you. > > Most carriers have a way to send messages directly to phones and I use a > phone from one specific carrier that has access via modems(using TAP > protocol and I use qpage(www.qpage.org)). You can also use qpage via a > public(but carrier specific) snpp server, but I have not had a need for > that as I need/want off Internet delivery of messages to the carrier's > network. > > On the expensive side, lookup 'sms short code' and you will see > information on how that works and more info on service providers in this > area. > > Lyle Giese > LCR Computer Services, Inc. > >
