Brian,
Here's another thing that would be nice: A web service to look up the carrier for a cell number. That way you could simply send an email to phonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxx, though this would still be only a partial solution. This is a lot harder now that numbers are transportable between carriers.
from what i can tell this is somewhat of a pipe dream, unless youre a big company that a telco *really* likes and have tons of money. the voip industry which ive been working in for nearly 2 years now has lots of feature like this. the only reason they have those features is because of the sheer nature of voip, which enables almost anyone to provide telephone functionality over the internet. cell phones are a totally different story though and my fear is the only way to get in is a dirty hack they [telcos] are overlooking that if properly exploited could become an open source movement that the phone companies would have to accept. something similar to the open source voip movement but w/ cell phones. i was close to this hack late last year, but its so unreliable that theres no way to go to production w/ it. -nathan On 7/12/07, Brian Dunning <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's another thing that would be nice: A web service to look up the carrier for a cell number. That way you could simply send an email to phonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxx, though this would still be only a partial solution. This is a lot harder now that numbers are transportable between carriers. I was not able to find any service provider that makes the SMS messages appear to come from the sender's cell phone, so they could be replied to normally. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
