Telstra (Australian Telco) has recently introduced a feature to allow the sending of SMS direct to fixed analogue lines, with an appropriate handset.
As best as I can figure out, this appears to use CID type signalling, or at least on a line that otherwise has no CID on it, CID is sent, but with a standard modem I can only receive the date, time, and phone number (eg normal CID info). After that the phone rings, but Telstra will just call the number and use 'Text to Speech' to read the message out when a user answers. Does anyone know anything more about this in Australia or, failing that, if they do the same thing anywhere else in the world? My guess is that either: 1. the whole message is transmitted in the CID period, but my modem doesn't hear it, but then I don't know how Telstra would know that the message has been received. 2. Some indicative signalling takes place in the CID, which then triggers the handset to hide rings from the user and use normal modem signalling to transfer the message. If it has been around for a while outside Australia, is there an SMS module for Asterisk which would make use of it? I think that being able to receive (and probably send - haven't even started looking at that yet but it is supported in the same way) SMS messages would be a really nifty thing to be able to do from a phoneline, and would save me buying a $600 GSM modem to do the same thing! Thanks James _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
