Many thanks to all of you for your responses. I am glad that I found Kannel, and the link to playsms looks very promising as well. I understand that I'll need to use Kannel to connect to the world of SMS, and that Kannel can interface with a program such as playsms in order to build the sort of application that I want.
What I still don't understand is what exactly I need on the hardware side. I know that I will need a webserver, but is an internet connection all that I need to send SMS messages? If not, what additional hardware do I need? Do I need to pay a telephone company for service? If so, what services? Those may seem like basic questions, but being new to the world of telephone technology, I don't really understand exactly how the gateways and crossovers work. Again, thanks so much for your help and patience. Sincerely, Ryan On 10/31/07, Azaman Suleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yuppz kannel can do that. You can use playsms together with kannel to > do the voting which playsms provided (poll). I have used playsms and > tweak abit for some other application which is not a straight simple > voting. the link http://playsms.sourceforge.net/ > hope that helps. > > > On 10/31/07, Ryan Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm involved in the technology planning of a Battle of the Bands event. > We > > are interested in monetizing the event by letting people vote for their > > favourite band via text message and charging a small fee. Is Kannel an > > appropriate technology to allow our server to accept text messages and > > process them? Has anyone else deployed a similar application? What sort > of > > hardware do I need to enable such a setup? > > I'm a relative newbie in this area and don't really know where to begin > from > > a technology standpoint, so if anybody has any experience that might be > > relevant, please do chip in. :-) > > > > Thanks much, > > Ryan > > Student at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire > > > > > -- > Hj Azaman Hj Suleiman > Tel: +6738143127 Fax: +2343188 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
