FrontlineSMS allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal.

WAP Push capabilities?

Just evaluating the FrontlineSMS for distributing video files and was wondering if anyone has ever done any WAP pushing through FrontlineSMS?

Thanks

Permalink Reply by Alex Anderson on October 20, 2008 at 12:53pm: Hi Courtney,

It's not currently possible to send WAP Push messages with FrontlineSMS. However, if you send a URL in a text SMS, most phones will let you open that link in the browser. Is this sufficient?

Alex

P.S. It would be very good to hear from anyone else hoping to use WAP Push.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Courtney Roes on October 20, 2008 at 1:25pm: Thanks for the reply Alex.

I don't know if the URL will be sufficient for what I'm trying to do. I'll have to mess around with it and see if it work for my end users.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Carlos Eduardo on October 21, 2008 at 4:36am: Hi Courtney,

Can you tell us more about what you are planning to do with WAP pushes via Frontline? If you tell us, we can think about including this new feature on future releases.

Thanks,
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Permalink Reply by Courtney Roes on October 21, 2008 at 4:46am: The first thing I'm looking at doing is distributing videos to handys (cell phones). I know many cell phones allow for SMS to include links but I'm reading that an efficient way to distribute is through WAP Push. I'm also trying to see how I might be able to move smaller videos out via MMS for users who don't have data plans with their cells. If you know of other ways to get videos out, I'm just learning the how's of this so I'd love to hear about more options.

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Permalink Reply by Alex Anderson on October 23, 2008 at 6:19pm: Hi Courtney,

This sounds very interesting. As I said, I think the only way FrontlineSMS can help you at the moment is to send links in plain text messages, but this should work about as well as WAP Push for phones that support video. Keep us posted with your progress.

Cheers,

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Permalink Reply by Sasha Costanza-Chock on October 27, 2009 at 6:43pm: Hey Courtney, at vozmob.net we send pictures, audio clips, and short video clips to phones by sending them as mime mail attachments via the email-mms gateways that many (most?) phone service providers make available. For example, I send an email to 1234567890@mms.phonecompany.com, with my media files attached; phonecompany turns the email into an MMS and sends it on to the user.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alex Anderson on October 27, 2009 at 6:48pm: Hi Sasha,

That sounds very handy. Could you share more info on the countries and networks that this works with? That'd beauseful to know.

Cheers,

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Permalink Reply by Sasha Costanza-Chock on October 27, 2009 at 7:41pm: So far we've only tested in the USA, Colombia, and France. In theory it should work anywhere the provider has a gateway (and would be not hard to configure if you were able to set up your own gateway, for which you could use mbuni or whatever). We also brainstormed on this a bit here: http://dev.vozmob.net/issues/225. And see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_carriers_providing_Email_or_We...

If you want to chat about it look for our lead developer mark burdett (mfb) on irc://freenode/vozmob (freenode.net #vozmob).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alex Anderson on October 28, 2009 at 6:49am: Thanks for the info, this is great stuff :-D I'll definitely look further at mbuni. Do you know how widely MO MMS-to-email is supported? Is it possible that sending an MMS from a phone to an email address will work?; ▶ Reply to This