Cell Phones & Text messaging

[Alan Cohen]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:56, David Colebatch wrote:
> Don't overlook the option of hooking up an old Nokia to a server with a serial 
> cable and running gnokii (http://www.gnokii.org/).  We use this setup back 
> home to allow servers to send us SMS even when the network is down (Try doing 
> that with an email-SMS gateway).

Interesting... A suggestion was made re Wavecom's WMOD2B GSM modem. I
wonder what the argument is for using it instead of a Nokia phone with a
serial connection as you mention.

What software are you using? Perl's GSM::xxx? SMSLink?

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