Hi,
Can someone please tell me what are the pre-requisites for establishing an SMS Aggregation service (as a business), I am after the technology and implementation, a rough overview of what is involved (what components, ex. Gateway, carrier, etc) will be great help.
Regards
Find partner(s) with the right infrastructure that offer you connection to the mobile world. You will have difficulty dealing with carriers directly, but there are some "super-aggregators" that are connected to several carriers and offer you their services. This partner deals for you with the low level stuff (routing & delivery on SS7 layer). Get connected to the partner, probably via SMPP, the de facto standard protocol for SMS over IP.
Find many good customers. Offer them a broad range of interfaces like SMPP, HTTP, SOAP, ..., you name it.
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Profit!
If you keep it like that you have an IP only infrastructure and you won't have to deal with the nasty parts of the SMS world (at least not technically).