Completely OT: European mobile text-messaging

[Mark Janssen]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 22:29, Alex Malinovich wrote:

> I've been wondering what standard, if any, is used around Europe for
> mobile text messaging. My brother is an aid worker in Georgia and goes

[snip]

> I'm wondering if there's a way to do it online? SMS or something
> similar?

Europe, at least most countries I know, use regular SMS messages which
you can either send from your own GSM-mobile, or using some sms-gateway.
There used to be lots of free (add-supported) SMS-gateways, but these
seem to be reducing fast.

You could try dialing into the message-center yourself, although this
could be expensive, best bet is to just SMS from your own mobile phone.

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[Bijan Soleymani]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:29:47PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:

> I'm wondering if there's a way to do it online? SMS or something
> similar?

I think there are some Web -> SMS gateways on the net. I remember that
icq had some sort of SMS gateway as well. I think there are even some
SMS devices that can interace with icq.

But more related to debian:
bijan@server:~$ apt-cache search sms
alamin-client - Alamin GSM SMS Gateway client
alamin-server - Alamin GSM SMS Gateway server
apache - Versatile, high-performance HTTP server
apache-perl - Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with added Perl support
apache-ssl - Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with SSL support
comerr-dev - The Common Error Description library - headers and static libraries
devscripts - Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
file-rc - Alternative boot mechanism using a single configuration file
gnokii-smsd - SMS Daemon for Nokia mobile phones
gnokii-smsd-mysql - SMSD plugin for the MySQL RDBMS
gnokii-smsd-pgsql - SMSD plugin for the PostgreSQL RDBMS
gsasl - GNU SASL commandline utility
gsm-utils - GSM mobile phone access applications
ickle - An ICQ2000 client for GTK+
ickle-control - An ICQ2000 client for GTK+
ipip - IP over IP Encapsulation Daemon
kannel - WAP and SMS gateway
kannel-docs - WAP and SMS gateway documentation
kannel-extras - WAP and SMS gateway extras
kaphorism - display aphorisms according to today's date
kernel-internals-guide - Linux Kernel 2.4 Internals Guide
ksmserver - KDE Session Manager
lg-issue39 - Issue 39 of the Linux Gazette.
libamulet4 - A GUI toolkit for X11, Macintosh and Windows 95/98/NT
libcomerr2 - The Common Error Description library
libdjbdns1 - DNS client library designed to replace the BIND res_*/dn_* library
libdjbdns1-dev - DNS client library designed to replace the BIND res_*/dn_*library
libgsasl1 - GNU SASL library
libgsasl1-dev - Development files for the GNU SASL library
libgsmme1c102 - GSM mobile phone access library
liblogtrend-action-perl - Perl module for logtrend agents
liboop-dev - Event loop management library - development files
liboop4 - Event loop management library
libtext-roman-perl - A module for managing integer and Roman
libxml-parser-perl - Perl module for parsing XML files
linuxsms - Cool script in Perl to send SMS messages to GSM phones
logtrend-storageserver - logtrend storage server daemons and utils
open-amulet-dev - Development files for OpenAmulet, a GUI toolkit
open-amulet-images - image files for OpenAmulet, a GUI toolkit
printbill - Sophisticated print billing / accounting system for lprng
python-mbus - bus messaging for application comunication
scmxx - Exchange data with Siemens mobile phones
skyutils-dev - Many useful functions for the web like smssend (development)
skyutils2 - Many useful functions for the web like smssend
sms-pl - Send SMs via Polish GSM operators
smsclient - A program for sending short messages (SM / SMS)
smssend - Utility to send SMS messages to GSM mobile phones
smstools - SMS Server Tools for GSM modems
xgsmlib - Gnome application to handle mobile phone's phone book and SMS
xinetd - replacement for inetd with many enhancements
yaps - Yet Another Pager Software
vicq - A simple, Perl-based ICQ client.


I think you should try out something like apt-get install smsclient
or smssend.

Hope that helps,
Bijan


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[Johannes Zarl]

> He told me

> today that he can receive mobile text messages from Belgium, France, and
> Croatia while he's traveling in the countryside.

In fact, most (if not all) european cellphone-providers have roaming
partners in all other european countries. Thus they also deliver
SMS-messages across europe.

>While I seriously doubt
> that I could send him messages directly from my cell phone in the US,

Why? Which text-messaging standards are used in the US?

> I'm wondering if there's a way to do it online? SMS or something
> similar?

[url]http://www.textmefree.com/Rest_of_Europe/[/url]

May be of some help for you. SMS-Service from ICQ could also be an option..

Good luck,
Johannes

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