I fancy starting a site which allows people to send SMS's for free. I do however have no clue about doing it and what it requires. Has anyone done this? And what are the kinds of things it requires? Thanks!!
i havent done this exactly, but i do use the SMS api from clickatell to send sms messages. You better make sure your business model is going to cover the costs!
There are one or two free sms sending scripts around but i don't think they are not 100% successful Also you can't cover all counties with one single script.
I would just like to do this for the U.K. What are the free scripts? I looked by was unable to find any free ones.
With the exception of the US (which won't last forever) and a few networks in a few other countries, there is no such thing as free sms. Websites that offer free sms either have a business plan which covers the cost, or find themselves out of business soon enough. As examples, some websites use free sms to bring traffic to their site, whilst other services reserve some of the message space for advertising and some (really dodgy ones) spam the recipients with standard and/or premium rated messages.
Most important of all you need a SMS gateway..the main thing that links or sends SMS from the internet medium to actuall cell fones.. that requires a third party SMS gateway provider.. its not that simple as you think.
I am totally agree with him, this is not an easy job to do. A Free script will not only work. Requires a great deal of hard work and tech info.
Buy SMS gateway from here : http://www.tm4b.com/sending-sms/ and use this script : http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/647/ I got this from our programming section.
you guys are all wrong I actually own a free sms site and it costs me nothing and the user nothing it works in the us,uk,canada,india and many other countries I have just been too lazy to add them. All you have to do is buy a script and install it both of which I can provide you just pm me please
Let me guess... you are in the US or Canada and have managed to get your script to work over there. When someone comes to send an SMS you ask them as to what carrier the message is being sent to or your script connects to a database which matches the opening numbers to the network. Your script then sends the sms via smtp. You'll find that, whilst your script works wonderfully in the US/Canada for now, it won't work forever as the carriers are blocking IPs that abuse their smtp gateways and will (eventually) discontinue their provision. You will also find that, with the possible exception of India, your script will not work in the other countries, regardless of what the person who developed the script says. Being outside of those countries and being too lazy to find out mean that you won't really ever know from a practical level. I'm sorry if my response is quite blunt, frank or unnecasirly harsh, but the limited free sms concept only works in the US & Canada at present and those who depend on them are entering into a big bubble that is due to burst some time in the near future.
theres already a number of these types of sites online so it can definitely be done. never gone into it though.
I really hope that i can get the free time to prepare a descriptive explanation, but in brief, the only way you can send sms for free is if the terminating network provides an email-to-sms interface and all you do is send your sms as an email to the interface's email address. pictureboarduk wants this for the UK and IT IS NOT POSSIBLE IN THE UK.
yea, what fambi is speaking about is Web2SMS. Thats probably the only way you can send UNLIMITED FREE SMSes from a computer. Others will cost you per message and hence, you will limit the visitors of your site on that front. As for Web2SMS, not all mobile service providers have that feature.
alright... I'm in India and although this supports a limited number of regions of a limited number of networks, it works... I sent an SMS to my friend who happens to be on the available network, and he received it in less than 30 seconds... not bad for a free SMS service...
Well One of my client started a FREE SMS site..however it was closed after 4 months the earnings of the site just didn't meet the cost. A lot of people abuse such services and its extremely hard to maintain.