Looking for recommendations: sending SMSs from linux

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

Thanks for the info.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 01:38:55PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> I use a Hauwei (or is it Huawei?) dongle. The asterisk chan_dongle
> driver allows you to make and receive calls and send and receive
> SMSs.
> 
> I was able to find one for sale in Haifa using ZAP, after someone
> who is not on this list pointed me to,a I bought one from an eBay
> vendor selling them. He sells them for under $50 including
> registered mail from Hungary, and they take  less than 2 weeks to
> get here.
> 
> I paid about 300 NIS including postage for the one I bought here. It
> was the only one that store had at that time.
> 
> Since the dongle is managed by asterisk, you can send an SMS using
> all of the asterisk functions, or by the shell command "asterisk -rx
> dongle sms <dongle name> <number> message."
> 
> You can also query its status, the status of the connection, and
> load and unload the module with asterisk commands.

How long does it take to send 1 message? 3? 10?
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Didi