Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce
Post Number: 5043
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 04:07 pm: | |
No. Unfortunately, this is a problem specific to the USA.
The SMS interconnection between the carriers in the USA (even 2 GSM carriers like T-Mobile and Cingular) are text only.
So basically, they lose any special attributes such as concatenation, and scramble any binary data.
The issue is that CDMA is different, it's support for binary SMS is completely different. And to the best of my knowledge, it doesn't support long (concatenated SMS). So the US interconnects strip all of this.
Unfortunately, a lot of this kind of thing is difficult to do in the US. I hear that SimpleWire (an SMS service provider) is quite good at delivering binary SMS in the US, but I haven't had any direct experience using them.
-bn |
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