[cma-l] Text Messages

Tue Jun 7 17:30:06 BST 2016

Get a broadband dongle (v cheap on eBay
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h&si=4689039375728640&pi=0de64476-560d-4289-a74d-b1bcc25875bc>  – say £20 –
or someone might have a spare one kicking around), put a PAYG SIM card in it
(say £10 by the time you’ve put some credit on the SIM, and get this
software (SMS Enabler)
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=4689039375728640&pi=0de64476-560d-4289-a74d-b1bcc25875bc> : for a one-off
60 USD.  You can buy a half-decent memorable number on eBay
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rch&si=4689039375728640&pi=0de64476-560d-4289-a74d-b1bcc25875bc> , too, for
anything up to, say, £30.

You then need a spare PC or laptop running anything from XP upwards (or you
run it as a background task on an admin PC in the studio – but I’d caution
against using any mission-critical PCs, obviously!).

One-off cost:  roughly £100 – may be less.

Monthly cost:  £1 (you will probably need to top up the SIM with a minimum
£5 every 6 months to keep the number active – make a diary note!)

No of inbound texts:  Unlimited! 

The result is a surprisingly flexible inbound text-to-email system for
unlimited texts for a modest start-up cost and virtually no ongoing cost.
You can route texts to different email accounts/places using initial words
(“Text us on 07xxx aabbcc and start your text with WIN”).  And your
listeners get a “standard” 11-digit text number to use, which will cost them
nothing (it will be part of their “inclusive texts”). 

NOTE:  Texts to 5-digit short-code text numbers are all charged, at “your
standard rate”, which is around 12p/text on most UK networks, I think.  They
are not part of inclusive text bundles).  

You can also send outbound texts from the software.  We don’t do this, but
it’s possible.

Anyway, this is what we use, and we find it brilliant – hope this helps!

Cheers

Julian

07799 888444

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[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Nathan Silveston
Sent: 07 June 2016 15:11
To: Jabbar Karim <radioasianfever at yahoo.co.uk>; The Community Media
Association Discussion List <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Text Messages

I wrote my own little app that uses a wavecom modem and writes into a
database. And then I have a page that shows text line by line It's a fairly
cheap outlay. You can also get commercial software that does the same.

Search for and gateway software.

Otherwise hosted platform I don't really have any to recommend as I don't
use any

Sent from my iPhone

On 7 Jun 2016, at 14:55, Jabbar Karim <radioasianfever at yahoo.co.uk
<mailto:radioasianfever at yahoo.co.uk> > wrote:

Hi

We have been using text stuff from Radio Broadcast and now need another
similar just this month, however Radio Broadcast have stopped supplying this
service and we really need a text service which appears on the PC screen.
Any advise or sign posting will be much appreciated. 

Kind Regards

Jabbar Karim 

Managing Director  

Fever FM @ Resource Centre   

233 - 237 Roundhay Road 

Leeds 

LS8 4HS

Office:  0113 38 05 680  

Mobile: 0788 170 11 33

www.radioasianfever.co.uk <http://www.radioasianfever.co.uk> 

www.fevertvleeds.co.uk <http://www.fevertvleeds.co.uk> 

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