Hello,
I know this isn't the right forum for my question, but it is still related to phones/network/sms and maybe you could help me.
We want to be able to receive SMS of high volumes through an SMS Inbound service from all over the world and transfer the user phone number in our database. With high volumes I am talking about up to 50,000 SMS/minute per long number.
I found this definition:
Long Number: A long number is a phone number connected directly to a SMSC (a SMS Center, the servers used by mobile carriers to manage SMS) and is, therefore, able to manage a high number of SMS (similar in terms of capacity to a short code). Caution: some providers are just using a SIM card in a modem and selling this as a “long number” but a SIM card has limited capacity. Try to receive 100 SMS in less than one minute on your phone; you will understand why there is a difference. Long numbers are usually reachable from other countries. For example, Spanish Mobile user can send an SMS to a UK long number. Sending a text to this UK long number will cost the same as sending a text to a UK mobile user (standard international rate).
Now we have several questions:
1.) What is the usual maximum of receivable SMS we can expect from a long number? Can they catch up with our requirements?
2.) Do the network operators have somekind of a SMS anti-spam protection? Will we trigger it?
3.) Is it true that a long number can be reached from any country or are there limitations?
Can you recommend any SMS inbound provider?
Your help will be grately appreciated. Thank you.
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Hi,
I have a data flatrate and a flatrate to calll "landline" numbers from my Omnia mobile.
For calls to mobile numbers, I have 60 free minutes included per month. Is there a software (ideally freeware) to count the time of all outgoing calls to mobile numbers per month?
Would be great as mobile calls above the limit are quite expensive.
The tricky bit for the software will be to distinguish "landline" numbers automatically from "mobile" numbers.
I'm located in Germany.
Thanks for your help,
Franziska
homescreen plusplus
you can see call times,nr.sms and data(internet)
daily and monthly counters on today screen
web site for download:
http://www.chi-tai.info/
that only displays call times, not specific call times like he requested
Joel is right...
Hi,
unfortunately Joel seems right. I need to have summary of all outgoing mobile call times.
Thanks so far,
Franziska
with homescreen plusplus you can see only the outgoing calls,if you need, checking the dedicated box in settings.
On the contrary you cannot count separately the outgoing calls
I have a contract with my cellphone company that provides me besides normal cellphone service, unlimited calls to a group of people in my country, all people in that group are identified with an aditional short phone number, so we have two phone numbers in our SIM, the normal one and the short one.
Happens that we use the short number to call ourserlves in the group (we could also use the normal number, but that'd be charged in my invoice as a normal call), but the normal phone number is always shown in our phones as incoming number when receiving a call from the group or outside, and that's how it is saved in call log.
So, in my contacts list, each contact has the two numbers added (I've set the normal phone number as cell phone number, and the short number as work phone).
Now the problem, the way smartdialer in WinMo5 and later work is to show the last call (made/missed/received) of every contact, then contacts list (if contact not already shown before), and after receiving a call from the group in my case the normal number is shown, and there's no way to use the short number to reply, unless I take the long path and go to contacts list and choose the contact and number manually; usually I'm in a hurry and just forget and call the contact using smartdialing and happens that the normal number is dialed.
I had no problem using smardialing with WinMo2003 as there was an option to choose a default number when there were multiples numbers on a contact, so, no matter what number a contact used to call me, when using smartdialing the default number was always chosen, I see no equivalent in WinMo5 or later.
Now, is there a way to replicate that behavior from WinMo2003? (registry/patch/etc.), thanks for taking the time to read.
P.D. the same can be said when we have multiples numbers in a contact (work/home/etc.) and receive calls from some of them but just want to reply to just one of them.
Hi Everyone,
I search the forum as well as the web and couldn't find what I want.
I have a 2in1 sim card that holds 2 line numbers (official card from the provider).
The one is my work number (with contract) the other is prepaid (personal use).
The prepaid number has unlimited calls & SMS plan when calling/sending sms to a same prepaid card pack owner. So, calls & SMS to certain people that have the same prepaid pack I would like to be made through the prepaid number.
What I would like to ask is: Is there an app that allows me to define certain numbers for calls or SMS to be made with a certain line number?
EG. I have two lines: line1, line2 and two contacts: person1, person2
Person2 has the prepaid card pack that I can call for free.
-Let's say I am on line1. I would like, when I try to call person2 the phone to switch to line2 and then make the call.
The same would be cool for SMS (although I think is harder to implement)
This of course would require to either 1) Set an identifier in a field in each contact that can tell which line to dial from or 2) The app itself to have a database that I can link to contact as to what contact to call with each line.
I understand that intercepting the call/sms request would require low level coding, but I thought I would make a question to see if an app like this exists.
Thank you in advance.
PS. The reason I am requesting this is because many times on the rush I accidentally call the prepaid number through my contract line and pay for calling where I could have gone without.
1. How can I receive calls and make calls on my local number while international? When I leave the states and I'm working in a foreign country, when someone calls me on my normal cell phone number, I want it to ring on my cellphone no matter where in the world I am. It does not need to go through the PSTN where I located, but I would need to be able to return calls to US destinations, which would require going through the PSTN for US destination calls, without having it cost an arm and a leg.
2. Random thoughts I have are call forwarding from the local number to..., a Skype $60/yr. phone number, SIP somehow, calls made by MagicJack to the US or Canada are free. MagicJack to MagicJack calls are free no matter where you are, etc. Maybe to return calls, one of the dial-a-number first plans, which are as low as 4 cents a minute, etc. I'm trying to stitch together anything that be free or inexpensive. I'm interested in your thoughts.
3. Unrelated question: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Signal app on our phones simply initializes a session with Whisper System's Servers across the Internet. Your phone number is simply a handle so when Signal users call each other, Signal knows which handles to pair up for their peer-to-peer session. Because it is done across the Internet, there is no concept of PSTN countries, area codes, etc., and where either user is located at the moment is irrelevant as long as they both have a data connection of some kind, it doesn't change how they dial, and the cost of the call ranges from free Wi-Fi, up to the cost of the small amount of cellular bandwidth consumed by the calls. Moreover, when you change SIMs and thus your phone's telephone number, the Signal telephone number remains the number that you initially set up Signal on.
Is there a way to change the outgoing caller ID on my cellphone to my business number?
The reason I am asking is because I have a VoIP-based business phone system (we host it ourselves) and my extension forwards to my cell phone when I am not in the office. It would be nice to be able to call people back from my cellphone and have it show my business number so that customers don’t inadvertently wind up with my cellphone number.
Right now I call back into our phone system and then place an outgoing call from there. But that means I cannot simply call using the dialer app and it’s difficult to do via the Bluetooth in my car because the second number (the customer’s number) as to be manually entered on the phone. It would be a lot nicer if Bell Mobility (or any carrier) could just replace my cell phone number with our business number.
Ideally I could do this for all of our technicians (who have company cell phones) so that their cellphones just becomes another extension on the system.
The Fish
They can replace your number, port it. Outside of that nothing you can do because they don't know what a business call is and what a personal call is to try and switch back and forth between your CID.
What we would do on FreePBX is create a account for the cellphone, have the boss use a SIP app on his phone, and then set the outbound CID for the account, that way when your calling someone back you just dial through the SIP app and select the outbound he wants (was running 4 companies at once and just had to use a prefix to set the ID he wanted) vs calling in and having to do a bunch of extra steps. Only thing is setting up policy for his phone to connect. I had a web site that they could authenticate through an then would add that to iptables so that they could connect since your IP will probably change occasionally, check out Dynamic Good Guys
There's really no easy way to go about it and it's all personal preference, and I know what you mean about people getting your cell number. I did on-site business and customer repairs and second someone gets your number it's calls all hours of the night, where if they used business number after-hours ivr would have caught it and left me alone.