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sms2gsm.com News and Information Service
Friday, December 29, 2006
Test entry only.
posted by Steve 5:08 AM
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Updates: sms2gsm.com's back end services have recently been upgraded, visit here regularly for additional updates.
posted by Sharon 4:39 AM
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Back End Services: We have just moved away from
T-Mobile as a supplier of text messages. Lack of coverage in the global network being the main reason.
posted by Steve 4:25 AM
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Lost Password Problem: Resolved.
posted by Steve 9:30 AM
New Feature: Group sending is now available to registered users. Just click the 'Send SMS' link as usual and read how to format your SMS as a group send.
posted by Steve 9:29 AM
Network Problems: Resolved.
posted by Steve 9:25 AM
Saturday, February 15, 2003
Network Problems: Both Vodafone and Orange had problems yesterday. To our knowledge, both networks are now working correctly again.
posted by Steve 12:49 AM
Friday, January 10, 2003
Lost Password: System is currently having problems.
posted by Steve 4:57 AM
Thursday, September 05, 2002
Support: Our 'Live Support' system has been reactivated - Live Support We will endeavour to have personnel available to answer your queries as much as possible.
posted by Steve 1:36 AM
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Alert Services: Are having problems, back shortly.
posted by Steve 7:04 AM
Address Books: Working again now.
posted by Steve 1:22 AM
Friday, August 30, 2002
Address Books: Currently not working but this does not affect normal use for message sending etc.
posted by Steve 6:49 AM
Email Status: All systems back to normal.
posted by Steve 6:48 AM
Email: All sms2gsm.com email services are currently down since new servers were put into place. This will be rectified shortly.
posted by Steve 1:36 AM
Monday, June 17, 2002
Networks: The operator Etisalat, United Arab Emirates, has closed its network for messages sent from foreign networks und SMS services. Negociations for reopening are taking place. We will inform you about any further changes. Thank you for your understanding.
posted by Steve 2:18 PM
Saturday, May 04, 2002
Networks: The following two mobile networks in Yemen can now be reached through our SMS service with immediate effect:
• Sabafon
• Spacetel
posted by Steve 2:23 AM
Thursday, April 18, 2002
Changes: sms2gsm.com, previously owned by Development Web Limited has now been sold to Kaizen Communications Limited. All sms2gsm staff will transfer with the company.
posted by Steve 11:56 PM
Thursday, March 28, 2002
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posted by Steve 8:20 AM
Thursday, March 14, 2002
Registrations: Are temporarily suspended. This is whilst we make network changes. In future, registrations will only be taken from countries in Europe. All non paying accounts outside Europe will be suspended.
posted by Steve 1:47 AM
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
Orange: They just don't get it. They have stopped users with Orange phones recieveing short messages from non UK mobiles. A serious step back, just confirming that they are market losers in the world of SMS.
posted by Steve 3:32 PM
Saturday, November 10, 2001
Network: There were some general network problems yesterday but these seem to be fixed now. sms2gsm systems are running correctly.
posted by Steve 8:54 AM
Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Telia Sweden: As of 1st December 2001 - Telia Sweden is going to introduce an internetworking fee of SEK 0.48 per SMS to its subscribers.
posted by Steve 5:54 AM
Airtel Spain: As of 1st December 2001 - SMS delivery to Airtel Spain will become possible. The internetworking fee will be Euro 0.06 per SMS.
posted by Steve 5:53 AM
SFR France: As of 1st December 2001 - SMS delivery to SFR France subscribers will become possible. The internetworking fee will be Euro 0.064 per SMS.
posted by Steve 5:52 AM
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Services: Are running very smoothly at present with the only problems being associated with users entering incorrectly formatted mobile numbers. This despite clear instructions at registration time. The users that enter incorrectly formatted mobile numbers never receive their password on their mobile phone, perhaps they should pay more attention to the information put before them.
posted by Steve 1:23 PM
Thursday, September 20, 2001
Support: In future, support will only be given to users that have previously purchased messages.
posted by Steve 5:48 AM
Thursday, August 23, 2001
Germany - VIAG/Interkom: An internetworking fee of Euro 0.035 per message will apply to SMS sent to VIAG Interkom subscribers beginning September 1, 2001. This will currently NOT affect sms2gsm.com customers.
posted by Steve 5:03 AM
Belgium - Belgacom/Proximus: An internetworking fee of Euro 0.062 per message will apply to SMS sent to Proximus subscribers beginning September 1, 2001. This will currently NOT affect sms2gsm.com customers.
posted by Steve 5:01 AM
Saturday, August 18, 2001
FREE Service comes to and end: Our FREE services are coming to an end. Each user will now get 50 FREE messages on registration and once these have been used, you will need to purchase messages using our 'Purchase Messages' link. Our service still represents good value being far cheaper to use than sending messages directly from your mobile phone. Our services are primarily aimed at business users working in offices with permanent connections to the Internet.
posted by Steve 4:48 PM
Monday, August 13, 2001
950 million text messages in the UK last month -
(Not all of them through sms2gsm.com, it just feels like it!):
A total of 950 million text messages were sent in the UK during June. The Mobile Data Association figures show the number of messages sent across the four UK networks has almost doubled since the same time last year. Approximately 32 million chargeable messages are being sent across the UK's four mobile phone networks each day. June's total brings the total so far for this year to 5.3 billion.
The prodigious growth of SMS has been reflected in a number of high profile promotions announced this week. Both Nescafe and Cadburys announced SMS advertising campaigns calculated to appeal to the youth market. From August Cadburys consumers will be invited to send codes printed inside wrappers for the chance of winning an instant prize, while Nescafe announced it is to sponsor a new SMS reply service operated by Lycos UK.
posted by Steve 2:27 AM
Feedback/Human Click: As far as possible, we will answer as many queries as possible through these mechanisms. Unfortunately answers can only be given in English, other languages cannot be dealt with.
posted by Steve 12:23 AM
User Accounts: All user accounts without sensible 'first' and 'last' names will be deleted shortly. This is not an anonymous service.
posted by Steve 12:21 AM
Tuesday, August 07, 2001
Precautionary Down Time: The sms2gsm.com web site was shut down for a few hours today as a precautionary measure against a possible denial of service attack from a server in Turkey. The attack has been investigated and normal service has now been resumed. The culprit(s) will be dealt with to the full extent of the law in due course.
posted by Steve 5:57 AM
Monday, August 06, 2001
Misuse: Over the weekend, we had our first attack/misuse incident. This is a FREE service with nothing to be gained by messing things up other than removing a service that many people find very helpful. The solution to get rid of the 'bad' element of users is to turn the service into a subscription based service. We are now considering this as an option. Registrations have temporarily be suspended.
posted by Steve 12:25 AM
Thursday, August 02, 2001
WINNING LOTTERY NUMBERS FOR JULY:
14 10 19 35 17 2
The winner will be notified via our short message service.
posted by Steve 8:55 AM
Service Enhancement: In the course of enhancing our services, we are pleased to announce our coverage of the following mobile networks:
Asia
• Hong Kong, Hong Kong Telecom
• Hong Kong, New World PCS
• India, Birla AT&T Comm's Gujarat
• Malaysia, Excelcomindo
• Taiwan, Mobitai
Europe/Middle East:
• Israel, Yawwal
• Ukraine, Ukrainian Mobile Comms
Americas:
• Guadeloupe, France Caraibe Mobiles
You can always find the most current coverage information at http://www.sms2gsm.com/smscoverage.pdf
posted by Steve 8:46 AM
Wednesday, August 01, 2001
RED WORM UPDATE: The much expected wave of disruption that the Code Red worm was supposed to unleash today has not materialised.
posted by Steve 5:21 AM
Tuesday, July 31, 2001
RED Worm: The complete story.
posted by Steve 6:28 AM
Worm Warning: August 1st Midnight will see an attack of the entire Internet that has not been seen before, in form of the Code Red worm sms2gsm.com engineers are working against the clock to prevent this attack, aided by our upstream bandwidth providers and, more generally, by the entire Internet community, but this is a race against time and a race that we may well lose. sms2gsm.com systems may be swamped by network traffic generated by infected Microsoft IIS servers, which will mean our website appears to be offline and your short messages may not get through. We are however standing by to resolve the attack tonight.
Let us make it quite clear: the worm infects only Microsoft IIS web servers, which have a well-documented history of security exploits
and vulnerabilities. At sms2gsm.com we do not use IIS servers. .
Some reports suggest that already 300,000 IIS servers are infected, which should once and for all serve as a lesson of why people should not use Microsoft IIS servers in the first place. Rest assured that we do not use any IIS servers as we are a complete Unix house; no servers have been compromised.
posted by Steve 4:30 AM
Sunday, July 29, 2001
Resolved: The previous GSM Network Problem ahs now been resolved.
posted by Steve 6:57 AM
Network Problems: In the past 18 hours we have suffered from network problems associated with our web servers. This has now been resolved.
posted by Steve 6:56 AM
Friday, July 27, 2001
GSM Network Problem: Due to problems in a European routing node of several operators in the GSM network, SMS transmission to most countries and networks is significantly delayed at the moment.
posted by Steve 7:24 AM
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
RESOLVED Operator Problem: Vodafone - Prefix +447786... blocked due to technical problems.
posted by Steve 1:22 AM
Wednesday, July 04, 2001
Operator Problem: Vodafone - Prefix +447786... blocked due to technical problems (details to follow)
posted by Steve 11:43 PM
Sunday, July 01, 2001
WINNING LOTTERY NUMBERS FOR JUNE:
46 22 6 18 4 49
The winner will be notified via our short message service.
posted by Steve 6:03 AM
Saturday, June 30, 2001
Human Click: When one of the sms2gsm.com team is online, you can click the 'Questions? Click for live help' button and start a chat session instantly with us. At other times the button changes to 'Back in 5 minutes' or 'Leave a message', dependent on operator availability. Through this service, we hope to be able to answer your queries immediately, whilst you are still online at our web page.
posted by Steve 5:22 AM
Alerts: These are back too and we will be adding more categories soon.
posted by Steve 5:19 AM
Secure SMS: Is now back online. What does 'Secure SMS' mean? Quite simply it means that if you choose to send a message with this method, the connection between your web browser and our web server will be encrypted so that nobody can 'snoop' on the network and see the contents of your message.
posted by Steve 5:18 AM
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Operator Logos: We were recently asked by a client 'How do I reset an operator logo after installing a new logo via the Logo editor?' Listed below you will find a manual way of doing this. We will shortly implement a system that will make the process much easier for you at the click of a button.
1). Go to the sms2gsm.com Logo editor page. (Must be a registered user)
2). Put anything like a dot or a line on the logo editor.
3). Click the send button and enter the mobile number you wish to reset back to the original operator logo.
4). Select Operator Logo and then select the WRONG operator for the recipient phone.
e.g. If the recipient phone is Vodafone, select Cellnet etc.
5). Send the icon and get the person with the recipient phone to save the icon.
As the icon has the wrong operator identified, the phone will revert to the original operator logo.
posted by Steve 12:36 AM
Sunday, June 17, 2001
New Banner Advert: See it here. (FLASH required)
posted by Steve 3:29 PM
Rate our services: A rating system has now been installed, each visitor gets to rate our services once only.
posted by Steve 3:28 PM
SMS Alerts: Weather alerts are now operational.
posted by Steve 3:27 PM
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
SMS Alerts: This service is being revamped and has been temporarily removed.
posted by Steve 1:37 AM
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
EMS: The Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) is the ability to send and receive a combination of simple melodies, pictures, sounds, animations, modified text and standard text as an integrated message for display on an EMS compliant handset.
EMS is an enhancement to SMS but is very similar to SMS in terms of using the store and forward SMS Centers, the signaling channel and the like to realise EMS. EMS supports several simple media in standardized formats:
Text Formatting
EMS supports not just plain text but left, center or right alignments of text, normal, large or small font sizes and normal, bold, italic, underlined or strikethrough text.
Pictures
EMS supports three picture formats: small (16 by 16 pixels), large (32 by 32 pixels) or variable sized pictures. The standards recommend a maximum picture size of 96 by 64 pixels. This depends upon the handset vendor’s implementation. Pictures are plain black and white; there is no grey scale for shading.
Sounds
Within EMS, there are 10 different predefined sounds including low and high chimes and chords, Ding, TaDa, Claps, Drum and Notify. Additionally, user-defined sounds are possible which can be transferred over the air and take up to 128 bytes.
Animations
Moving pictures will be supported by EMS, in two sizes, small (8 by 8 pixels) and large (16 by 16 pixels). Handset vendors may implement methods for repeating these animations. The standards define a number of predefined animations, relating to sadness, flirtatiousness, gladness, scepticism and grief. User-defined animations are also possible in both large and small formats.
Technology
EMS has been standardized by extending the use of the long established and widely used User Data Header (UDH) common in SMS. EMS has little or no impact on today’s SMS Centers. The introduction of EMS should be totally transparent to SMS Centers since they already support the User Data Header.
The principal modification to existing SMS Centers would be in the case that mobile network operators wanted to charge differently for EMS. In such a case, the SMS Center would need to record the relevant technical values and generate Call Detail Records for billing purposes accordingly. Some network operators have indeed started investigating whether they can change their charging policy for EMS compared with SMS. They would like to charge for one enhanced message, instead of several SMS. One EMS may be made up of several short messages.
Time Frame
• 4th quarter 2001: Commercial volumes of EMS terminals begin shipping.
• 2002/3: EMS will have reached critical mass in terms of installed base of EMS capable terminals.
sms2gsm.com
Will be a platform that supports EMS. Suitable interfaces will enable you to transmit EMS messages to GSM mobile phones all over the world. All customers will be informed by SMS as soon as EMS will be supported by sms2gsm.com (planned 4Q2001).
posted by Steve 2:44 AM
Wednesday, June 06, 2001
Lost Password: We have now installed a 'Lost Password' link. This feature allows registered users to enter their mobile number (In the normal correct format), click a button upon which in a very short time they will receive a new password as an SMS on their GSM. If a wrong or non-registered mobile number is entered, the page just refreshes.
posted by Steve 8:00 AM
Tuesday, June 05, 2001
Operator Problem: ORANGE prefix 798 can now be reached again. All operators are back to normal.
posted by Steve 1:56 AM
Operator Problem: Austria - Mobilkom is now operating properly once again.
posted by Steve 1:49 AM
Internet Connectivity: This morning, access to the sms2gsm.com server in the United Kingdom has been very fast. Elsewhere in Europe however things have been a little slow. This is an Internet connectivity problem on the Net in general and is not associated with the sms2gsm.com servers.
posted by Steve 1:44 AM
Hardware Failure: The recent disk failure has now been addressed and moves are afoot to ensure that the contingency servers take over correctly in the event of future hardware failures.
posted by Steve 1:42 AM
Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Italy: Introduction of an Internetworking Fee in addition to the regular SMS price for messages sent to Omnitel subscribers. This is possibly the start of a worrying trend. sms2gsm.com services remain FREE to registered users.
posted by Steve 12:27 AM
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
Reminder: Messages to subscribers with the prefix +44798... are not being delivered because Orange has not correctly enabled the prefix for international SMS roaming. The prefix is being blocked on our system until it works .
posted by Steve 4:56 AM
Scheduled Maintenance: Next scheduled maintenance will be on 30th May 2001 from 7:00AM until 10:00AM GMT.
posted by Steve 1:46 AM
Secure Server: Is operational again.
posted by Steve 1:44 AM
Monday, May 28, 2001
Secure Server: Is currently down. This should be corrected within the next 48 hours.
posted by Steve 1:21 AM
Thursday, May 17, 2001
System Problems Now Resolved: All servers working correctly and as per normal.
posted by Steve 5:33 AM
System Problem: The two main message servers are experiencing problems. The backup message server is up and running and will be available shortly.
posted by Steve 5:27 AM
Operator Problems: SMS delivery to Connect Austria (formerly also unreachable) is possible again since today.
posted by Steve 12:05 AM
Wednesday, May 16, 2001
SMS Alerts: All alerts are currently working except FTSE-100. This will be rectified within the next 24 hours. Please be aware that all quotes are delayed by at least 25 minutes.
posted by Steve 12:54 AM
Monday, May 14, 2001
Operator Problems: Messages to subscribers with the prefix +44798... are not being delivered because ORANGE has not correctly enabled the prefix for international SMS roaming. The prefix is being blocked on our system until it works.
posted by Steve 6:36 AM
Friday, May 11, 2001
Operator Problems: ORANGE, still outstanding. Mobilkom and Connect, Austria should be fixed by the 21st May.
posted by Steve 12:23 AM
Monday, May 07, 2001
Operator Problems: ORANGE - Still outstanding. Mobilkom and Connect, Austria - The networks Mobilkom and Connect Austria are not reachable for the time being. Access will resume as soon as possible. We have blocked the corresponding prefixes.
posted by Steve 12:14 AM
Friday, May 04, 2001
Usage: We currently have clients using our system from the following countries -
• Egypt • Luxembourg • Netherlands • Saudi Arabia •
• Turkey • United Kingdom •
posted by Steve 1:27 AM
Operator Problem: Messages to Orange subscribers +44798... are currently being delayed. The problem is still under investigation; we have blocked this prefix for the time being.
posted by Steve 1:19 AM
Thursday, May 03, 2001
Operator Problem: ORANGE Messages to Orange subscribers are currently being delayed. The problem is under investigation.
posted by Steve 2:57 AM
Wednesday, May 02, 2001
Operator Problems: No known problems at this time.
posted by Steve 12:09 AM
Tuesday, May 01, 2001
Secure SMS: Clients now have the option of sending short messages via our SECURE SMS servers. The data between your web browser and our SMS servers is encrypted such that no message content can be seen over the internet. We have enabled this facility in the hope that it will build confidence for clients in our services and add credibility to what we are achieving.
posted by Steve 12:39 PM
Monday, April 30, 2001
Registration: The process for registration has now been changed such that in order to get an account you will need to supply a valid email address and a valid mobile phone number to receive a user ID and password.
posted by Steve 12:03 AM
Sunday, April 29, 2001
Enhancements: We have just made some changes to the FREE send an SMS service. When you send a message now, the message will appear to have come from your own mobile phone rather than from our sms2gsm.com server.
posted by Steve 11:58 PM
Thursday, April 26, 2001
Operator Problem: Austria A1 (mobilkom)
SMS transmission to A1 (mobilkom) subscribers is not possible at the moment. We have blocked the corresponding prefix +43664 on our systems for the time being.
posted by Steve 6:05 AM
Monday, April 09, 2001
SMS Coverage: We can currently deliver short messages to - Europe, Africa, Middle East, Far East, Oceania and the Americas. Over 90 countries are supported in all, involving more than 240 network mobile operators.
posted by Steve 11:29 PM
Network Capacity: To increase our network capacity, we will change the IP address of our second SMS gateway. This will be transparent to individual users and corporate customers. The IP addresses of our other SMS gateways remain unaffected.
posted by Steve 10:48 PM
Registration Speed: When you register for our FREE services, registration is now quicker as our administration team receive your request as a short message. Shortly we will accept/deny applications via SMS too.
posted by Steve 10:39 PM
Registration: To use our FREE services, you now need to register. You will find a link on our home page.
posted by Steve 11:54 AM
FREE Services: Shortly our FREE SMS services will only be obtainable by registering with us first. For now, all individual users and corporate customers have open access.
posted by Steve 5:14 AM
Operator Problems: None at present.
posted by Steve 2:55 AM
SMS Server Status: Online System Status Available in Real-Time. As we continuously enhance the reliability and performance of our SMS processing systems, we now provide an online status report for customers who wish to know on a real-time basis whether our systems are up and running. This report includes real-time information on the operational status of our systems, as well as scheduled maintenance and known operator problems.
posted by Steve 2:49 AM
Expansion: sms2gsm.com expands SMS processing infrastructure. In order to accomodate the increasing SMS volume of our customers, we have expanded the capacity of our SMS processing systems. Users and companies using our application interfaces should notice a significant improvement in server response times.
posted by Steve 2:47 AM
Delayed Message Delivery: sms2gsm.com users are now able to specify the desired delivery date and time for any message they send. Although the web based interface will transfer the message immediately to our systems, delivery will be deferred until the specified time. Using this feature, you can easily schedule SMS reminders (e.g. birthdays, meetings, pending tasks) for yourself and others.
posted by Steve 2:45 AM
Test: Initial test of news and info service.
posted by Steve 2:30 AM
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