Notifications via CDMA

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 14/05/08 05:06 PM, Douglas K. Rand wrote:
> I'm a Verizon customer in North Dakota (United States) and the only
> cell network available to us is CDMA. (Just in the last 6 months did
> we get EVDO.)
> 
> Right now we use a modem and dial in to the IXO/TAP number for
> Verizon. This works, but I'm concerned about how long Verizon will
> maintain a IXO/TAP terminal. (And as a minor point, messages sent via
> the IXO/TAP terminal are counted as out of network messages by
> Verizon.) 
> 
> I've been looking around for a way of delivering notifications
> directly via a wireless modem. If we had GSM service it seems that
> this is a very easy thing: get smstools3 and one of any of a number of
> GSM modems.
> 
> I was wondering if anybody had suggestions for accomplishing this with
> Verizon and their CDMA network. I've found the MultiTech CDMA
> MultiModem (MTCBA-C-N3-NAM) but no software to drive it. (We run
> Nagios on FreeBSD.) And from what I can tell you can't send messages
> on a CDMA network anywhere as easily as you can with GSM.

Can't you just send an email to some "special" address of your provider?

Every phone I ever came across were able to receive SMS trough email,
both in US and Canada.

Thomas
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