Mobile SMS

Mobile SMS is a text message which is transferred through the mobile network. Mobile SMS can be sent from a cell phone or a PC and received also by a cell phone or a PC.

Mobile SMS is a great help in mobile communication when a call is likely to disturb the recipient. The message will be arrived anyway and surely will be read now or later. It’s a very convenient solution.

Mobile SMS includes delivery reports as well. This means that your phone sends a request message to your mobile operator’s SMS Center. The SMS Center is responsible for forwarding SMS messages so it knows which messages are sent, which are delayed and which cannot be sent. It responds to the request message by sending back a delivery report to your mobile phone. By receiving this notification, you don’t have to worry about whether your message has reached its destination or not.

Mobile SMS sending with PC

Beside mobile handsets, computer based messaging is possible as well. You can use websites offering this option for the purpose, but using an SMS gateway is a more reliable way of mobile SMS sending with PC. The gateway should be installed on your computer. (Or you can hire the service of a gateway from a service provider. More on that later.) Then, with the help of an SMS sending application (it can be a simple Word or Excel, if the gateway supports) you can send your messages to the SMS Center (inside the mobile network). The SMSC will forward them to the recipient’s mobile phone.

Connecting to the mobile network

Of course, a connection has to be made between your computer and the mobile network. To make one, you have two possibilities:

• A wireless connection can be used to send/receive SMS messages if you attach a GSM Modem (or GSM phone) to your PC with a phone to PC data cable. The GSM Modem has a SIM card, that makes it possible to attach to the GSM network.


• Another option is to connect your system directly to the short message service center of a GSM service provider over the Internet. In this case a TCP/IP link is used to connect to the Short Message Service Center (SMSC) of a mobile network or an SMS service provider.

Either way, you will have to require of the services of a service provider. Even it is only for the transferring of your messages. You can’t avoid it.

Service providers

But you can require extra services, too. A gateway, for example, which was already mentioned earlier. This will cost you more money, so you decide whether you need it or not. You can pay for the services of a service provider by two ways:

1. Credit-based
   You buy a number of credits from the SMS gateway provider. Then, you can use those credits for sending messages. One SMS message will cost you one or more credits, depending on the receiver country. (e.g. sending an SMS to India might cost you one credit while sending an SMS to the USA might cost you two credits)


2. SMS-based
   You purchase a number of SMS messages from the SMS gateway provider. The price of one SMS is the same for all destinations.

A few SMS gateway providers offer a very low price per SMS message, but this is only because their network quality is also low. This way an SMS message may not reach its destination, or it may be overdue.

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