SMS gateways allow for the sending and receiving of SMS messages to or from devices other than cellphones. In this article several different kinds of gateways are described Web service to SMS Besides web-based gateways intended to be visited by end-users with web browsers, there are also web services like http://sms.globalbulksms.com that programs can utilize to send individual or bulk SMSes. Companies like these offer web services with full APIs for managing SMS sending, and offer special options for transferring ringtones, picture SMS, Unicode (SMS in local languages like Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, etc), WAP Push, etc. SMS to email This type of service allows people who do not have access to computer, but do have a cellphone, to send email. Several carriers worldwide and modern cellphones have built-in support for sending email through such gateways. It allows a user reply to an SMS notification of email. SMS to landline and landline to SMS This type of service allow cellphone users to send SMS messages to landline phone numbers just as they would to other cellphones. For example, Sprint's Text to Landline, after the customer has sent off the SMS message to the landline number, the recipient's phone rings with the caller ID of the Sprint customer's cellphone. When they pick up, an automated voice reads the text message and allows for a response via a voicemail or via one of a few canned text messages. SMS to Skype SMS to Skype, which is built on top of the M-Mail service mentioned above, allows any GSM mobile phone user to send Skype chat messages from their phone. Skype to SMS The Skype client software, from version 2.5 onwards, provides access to the Skype SMS service, allowing Skype users to send SMS messages and charge their SkypeOut account. SMS to home automation systems Some Home Automation systems have the ability to accept SMS messages from the users mobile phones to control home appliances. The system may send an SMS confirmation when the requested task has been performed SMS Messenger Similar to a yahoo or MSN messenger, the SMS Messenger allows the user to send individual or Bulk SMS to a group or selected contact in the users contact list. The main advantage of this type of a system is that the user doesn’t need to logon to the web (in case of a Web Based SMS) and the messenger sits in the system tray of the users PC. For more such articles visit us at http://sms.globalbulksms.com
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