What I need is: - 3-5 phone numbers in the UK, possibly on different networks - charge phones by Credit card - text messages received by these numbers get emailed to me (one by one) - Needs to work with premium text messages, i.e. the one where you pay as a recipient.
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A:
Clickatell is one of the most often recommended providers for this kind of service. They provide a lot of developer support too, with APIs and code examples to cover almost every requirement.
Beware if you intend to shop around though: SMS Gateways are bit of a tricky area - costs, rules and service quality for SMS vary wildly from country to country, and there are a great many small middlemen reselling SMS gateway services, some of which are disreputable spammers.
If you search StackOverflow for SMS you should see a number of similar/overlapping questions have a lot more detail, and discuss the pros and cons of different providers:
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/526046/receive-sms-messages-by-web-application
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/410022/send-and-receive-smss-to-a-php-script
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238579/free-sms-api (beware accepted answer)
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388657/receiving-a-sms-message-in-a-net-application
Colin Pickard
2009-06-16 09:39:58