SMS Pages to Cingular Cell Phone

Scott Lambert lambert at lambertfam.org
Fri Apr 22 00:33:34 CEST 2005


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:04:12PM -0700, Michael Halligan wrote:
> Fear.. Cingular has a maximum message size that is 1/3 of what AT&T
> wireless's was, so if you send 900 bytes in an e-mail, it will page
> you 3 times, each containing 1/3 of the message. It was painful enough
> that we had to switch our on-call guys to tmobile

300 bytes is a big improvement over Alltel's 75 character limit.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Subhendu Ghosh
> Sent: Thu 4/21/2005 2:39 PM
> To: Stover, Beth
> Cc: Scott Lambert; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] SMS Pages to Cingular Cell Phone
>  
> 
> ATT-WS has a product called Enterprise Paging that I am using to send out 
> SMS via TAP/SNPP phone number (ld call) (9.95/mo).  I use sendpage from 
> the Hylafax package.
> 
> http://www.attwireless.com/smallbusiness/services/emailmsg/entpaging.jhtml
> 
> According to the page - this product info will be folded into Cingular.com 
> on April 26th.
> 
> -sg
> 
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Stover, Beth wrote:
> 
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > Would you mind describing how you've configured the SNPP gateway via IP?
> >
> > Beth
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Lambert [mailto:lambert at lambertfam.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:04 PM
> > To: Stover, Beth
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Pages to Cingular Cell Phone
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:16:42PM -0700, Stover, Beth wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I've been using sms_client ver 2.0.8y on Nagios ver. 1.2 sending pages
> >
> >> to a Nextel cell phone.  My company is switching to Cellular as our
> >> provider.
> >>
> >> Has anyone had success sending text pages to a Cingular Cell phone?
> >>
> >> If so, which client are you using?  Do you have a call center number
> >> for Cingular?  Could you share information about you config?
> >>
> >> I've posted on the sms_client mailing list as well.
> >
> > If you get a useful answer to that question, could you make sure it is
> > posted to the list?  I've been looking for good config info for Cingular
> > for about three months now.  I'm guessing that Cingular doesn't want to
> > run TAP gateways and would rather you use a cell phone to send the SMS
> > wirelessly.
> >
> > For now I am using their SNPP gateway via IP.  Luckily, my backbone
> > hasn't gone down, yet.
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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