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</tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><br></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div></div><div><br>On 13 Oct 2013, at 7:56 am, Matt Perkins <<a href="mailto:matt@spectrum.com.au">matt@spectrum.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>We use push for non urgent notifications and for urgent and escalated notifications. An asterisk agi is used to dial the mobile with a voice call from a PSTN line with voice announcement. SMS is to easily ignored / missed. 99% of the time a push is all thats needed. We have some nifty voice menus where you cb . Even get more information or answer the fault with dtmf menu</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div><div><br><br><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>/* Matt Perkins</div><div> Direct 1300 137 379 Spectrum Networks Ptd. Ltd.</div><div> Office 1300 133 299 <a href="mailto:matt@spectrum.com.au">matt@spectrum.com.au</a></div>
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<div> PGP/GNUPG Public Key can be found at <a href="http://pgp.mit.edu">http://pgp.mit.edu</a></div><div>*/</div></div><div><br>On 13 Oct 2013, at 12:55, Nathan Brookfield <<a href="mailto:Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.com.au">Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Skeeve the biggest issue that has caught us out before is our staff having our network at home or being at the Office on Wireless and all of these applications
use ‘Data’ of course, so if your network is experiencing an issue or for example if you’re at home and there is an outage that causes the ATM interface on your modem to go down or your LNS to lose internet access, your still connected to the wireless AP and
effectively blackholed and won’t ever get the push message where-as SMS of course you will.
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 13 October 2013 12:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nathan Brookfield<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Wholesale SMS Services</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just adding a different perspective to the discussion.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Isn't SMS like Faxes? With the amount of Apps that most people could use these days and could subscribe to messaging services.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The pain in the ass on SMS is that I still get SMS alerts for some carriers that I've not dealt with in 5 years.... and getting off these is somewhat of a nightmare.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If someones was keen, they could probably write a multi-platform app which you could (for a fee maybe) provide an API for carriers, and let them have multiple broadcast channels (Alerts, info, sales, etc) that users could subscribe to and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Skeeve Stevens - </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; <a href="skype://skeeve">skype://skeeve</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Nathan Brookfield <<a href="mailto:Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.com.au" target="_blank">Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.com.au</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style>We are presently using ExeTEL for SMS Services for our customers and for integration into our management and customer systems using their API but the delay in there text messages
being dispatched is painful and we are getting down alerts for services a minute after they have actually come back online and I will eventually break my iPhone if I have to keep waiting for tokens for two factor authentication.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style>I am looking for recommendations for SMS services that people are using which people know meet the type of requirements we have in this industry. My main concerns are price per
message, API functionality and reliability and prompt delivery of messages.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style>Reply on or off list would be fantastic. I know of quite a few providers but someone local would be a positive as well.</p>
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