SMS Gateway - Tanzania

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For a client in Tanzania we need to provide an SMS gateway service. Requirements are as follows:

* sending to gateway from Tanzania at standard local costs to the senders
* notification of received SMS-es to our web application (preferably via http request)
* sending from our web application to your gateway (preferably via http request)
* delivery from your gateway to Tanzanian customers

The estimated volumes of SMS-es per month would be several thousands incoming and over one hundred thousand outgoing.

At first we looked at hosting a Forntline or Kannel based server in Tanzania. The hosting environment seems unreliable and expensive though. Second thought was to host a server in South Africa. Problem with that solution is that Tanzanian senders to the gateway will pay too much. Current thought is to use an international gateway provider.

Any tips?

All hosting companies that I contacted in Tanzania host their servers outside of Tanzania, mainly in the US. Anyone aware of an ISP (or other organisation) in Tanzania where we could host a machine running FL?