The oldest member of the mediaburst team and occasional smoker. But let’s not hold it against him. Cool as a cucumber and solid as a rock. John knows C# and Perl like the back of his hand and is our SMPP guru.
As a standard SMS can only contain 160 7-bit GSM characters, Concatenated SMS are used to send long SMS. Concatenation allows a sender to send more than one SMS which then get stuck together automatically by the phone to appear as one message.
continue reading Concatenated SMS
One of the issues that we continually see appearing is the question of which characters can be sent in a text message. What follows is a brief description of the format of a text message
continue reading The GSM character set
We have now enabled each of our non-billed SMS routes to support the delivery receipt error codes that were previously only on our premium rate (reverse billed) SMS.
continue reading API Delivery Receipt Error codes
The SMPP interface is now available on the new platform for sending SMS. At the moment delivery receipts are available over HTTP rather than SMPP.
By default, the encoding is set to UTF-8, but it also supports Latin-1, UCS2 (Unicode), or GSM encodings.
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We have now written a follow up post to this on Creating Perl module RPM’s.
We have been investigating the various build/packaging options for perl modules.
Nelson Mandela’s charitable organisations have launched an international SMS service to allow millions of people to donate money by texting a 90th birthday message to the former South African president. continue reading Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
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