RE: BT landline based SMS service - SIN-413 anyone any experience of this ?

["Patrick Lidstone \(Personal E-mail\)" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I have played with it briefly. There are third party units (such as
Magic Messenger http://www.magicmessenger.co.uk/)
which will allow you to
send and receive SMS via a landline - they basically work as advertised,
and
I believe incorporate a simple V23 modem (although I could be wrong). To
send an SMS, an outgoing call is initiated by the box, so I don't think you
would be able to send with a hacked caller id box, although receiving may
be
possible? You should be able to test this by (a) setting up your landline
to
receive SMS by sending the appropriate register message in the SIN and then
(b) sending a text message from your mobile to your landline. (If you don't
register, you will get a digital dot ringing your landline and reading out
the message). One nice feature is that you can also specify multiple
independent devices to receive messages using the subaddressing feature...

Patrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 December 2005 16:13
> To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [xap_automation] BT landline based SMS service -
> SIN-413 anyone any experience of this ?
>
> Whilst perusing SIN227 (CallerID) on http://www.sinet.bt.com/
> I noticed
> SIN354  SIN413 and SPIN080 which relate to the provision of
> SMS service via landline. Has anyone any experience of these
> ?  I haven't looked at any length at these but wondered how
> accessible or useful these might be to get a realtime xAP SMS
> gateway. Also not looked at the comms format or if a hacked
> CID unit might be used (V23).
>
>     K
>
>