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Our SMS API is 100

This week sees the 100th release of our SMS API. Some of these releases added major new features such as MMS, some didn’t make it past our test servers and others fixed bugs or made everything that little bit faster. continue reading Our SMS API is 100

Concatenated SMS

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

The SMS API is now online

Just a quick note to all our customers that the SMS API document is now online.

Gone are the days of huge pdf files and big print runs. The Online version is well structured so you can easily find the sections you need. If you need something specific then there is also a handy search facility.

To make life easy there is a large bank of example code covering all the different integration protocols.

Additionally, the online guide covers both SMS and MMS.

The GSM character set

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

API Delivery Receipt Error codes

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

SMPP Interface

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.

Give us a phone if you want to know more.

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