Comments on: US Carriers Requiring Shortcodes - Developer Hostility Hits a New High http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/ Ripping mobility from the clutches of telecom Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Messaging, Widgets, IM …. IA? http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-45806 Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Messaging, Widgets, IM …. IA? Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:44:56 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-45806 [...] I’ve been seeing more and more mentions of Twitter recently. I joined up a few months ago after the SF Tech Session on mobile communities, but I just put the badge up on my page today after seeing it pop up a few other places. Also at the tech session was TextMarks, who have a widget interface to their SMS keyword service. I like the remixability of the whole thing. I wonder if services like these are going to be able to keep going given the intentions of the carriers to try to determine what the boundaries between one service and another are, but I certainly hope they will. [...] [...] I’ve been seeing more and more mentions of Twitter recently. I joined up a few months ago after the SF Tech Session on mobile communities, but I just put the badge up on my page today after seeing it pop up a few other places. Also at the tech session was TextMarks, who have a widget interface to their SMS keyword service. I like the remixability of the whole thing. I wonder if services like these are going to be able to keep going given the intentions of the carriers to try to determine what the boundaries between one service and another are, but I certainly hope they will. [...]

]]> By: Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Bye Bye T-Mobile http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-43126 Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Bye Bye T-Mobile Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:59:20 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-43126 [...] I swapped my mobile phone number (MINE!! thank you number portability) to Cingular yesterday. It took nearly 14 hours for my new handset to start ringing instead of my old one when I call my number, but eventually it did happen. T-Mobile was just pissing me off too much. US carriers are not about customer satisfaction, they’re about how much you can tolerate. I was with T-Mobile because of the wifi that came with my Internet account for a while. But recently I had been seeing more and more issues with their SMTP to SMS gateways, dropped inter-carrier SMS messages, their generally poor coverage, had gotten multiple reports recently from people who say they can’t call my number at all (at all, they get a “number out of service message”, T-Mobile never managed to fix it for at least 3 people), and most recently the discovery that I can’t send messages to my own handset on T-Mobile. [...] [...] I swapped my mobile phone number (MINE!! thank you number portability) to Cingular yesterday. It took nearly 14 hours for my new handset to start ringing instead of my old one when I call my number, but eventually it did happen. T-Mobile was just pissing me off too much. US carriers are not about customer satisfaction, they’re about how much you can tolerate. I was with T-Mobile because of the wifi that came with my Internet account for a while. But recently I had been seeing more and more issues with their SMTP to SMS gateways, dropped inter-carrier SMS messages, their generally poor coverage, had gotten multiple reports recently from people who say they can’t call my number at all (at all, they get a “number out of service message”, T-Mobile never managed to fix it for at least 3 people), and most recently the discovery that I can’t send messages to my own handset on T-Mobile. [...]

]]> By: Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Non-SMS Mobile Messaging http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-42350 Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Non-SMS Mobile Messaging Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:51:33 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-42350 [...] Since it looks like carriers in the US aren’t really interested in people building SMS applications, I’ve been trying to figure out alternative ways to get messages to my handset. I registered Agile Messenger and played around with that. It used to be free, but now it’s a subscription product. Well worth it for Symbian devices, it’s a great messenger client. However it’s not quite working for what I want to do. I would like to deliver my messages over Jabber (Google Talk), cause I’ve done too much development in the past against Yahoo and AIM only to have the protocol change underneath me and get stranded. So I want to build on top of a public open standard. However my handset does tend to get lost, as in it looses the connection and doesn’t realize it. [...] [...] Since it looks like carriers in the US aren’t really interested in people building SMS applications, I’ve been trying to figure out alternative ways to get messages to my handset. I registered Agile Messenger and played around with that. It used to be free, but now it’s a subscription product. Well worth it for Symbian devices, it’s a great messenger client. However it’s not quite working for what I want to do. I would like to deliver my messages over Jabber (Google Talk), cause I’ve done too much development in the past against Yahoo and AIM only to have the protocol change underneath me and get stranded. So I want to build on top of a public open standard. However my handset does tend to get lost, as in it looses the connection and doesn’t realize it. [...]

]]> By: Jason Devitt http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-42216 Jason Devitt Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:25:16 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-42216 I feel for you. Take a look at 4INFO's 'open platform' - http://open.4info.net/. Don't know if there's any permissioning; i.e. anyone might be able to sign for your alerts if they know how. You may not care. I feel for you.

Take a look at 4INFO’s ‘open platform’ - http://open.4info.net/.

Don’t know if there’s any permissioning; i.e. anyone might be able to sign for your alerts if they know how. You may not care.

]]> By: C. Enrique Ortiz Mobility Weblog http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-41886 C. Enrique Ortiz Mobility Weblog Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:01:15 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-41886 <strong>Mike R on "US Carriers Developer Hostility Hits a New High"...</strong> Mike Rowehl writes about something that has me perplexed, upset, and furious - see All traffic to US handsets require a valid short code registered with the different networks. This is a very big deal. And is no good... Closed systems, over-contr.... Mike R on “US Carriers Developer Hostility Hits a New High”…

Mike Rowehl writes about something that has me perplexed, upset, and furious - see All traffic to US handsets require a valid short code registered with the different networks.

This is a very big deal. And is no good… Closed systems, over-contr….

]]> By: C. Enrique Ortiz http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-41885 C. Enrique Ortiz Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:51:44 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-41885 this thing is bullshit... to Dan, who wrote "This too shall pass." yes, sure, the problem is this is new; it wasn't that way... and now having to wait 2+ years for this to settle is no good... ceo this thing is bullshit…

to Dan, who wrote “This too shall pass.” yes, sure, the problem is this is new; it wasn’t that way… and now having to wait 2+ years for this to settle is no good…

ceo

]]> By: miker http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-41874 miker Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:19:19 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-41874 Thomas, yes, you pay both ways in the US, The sender pays, and receiver pays. There are email to SMS gateways in the US still, they're just very unreliable, relatively slow, tend to repeat and/or drop messages, and relatively easy to get blacklisted by. They're great for a quick hack, but really not a great platform to work on top of. Thomas, yes, you pay both ways in the US, The sender pays, and receiver pays. There are email to SMS gateways in the US still, they’re just very unreliable, relatively slow, tend to repeat and/or drop messages, and relatively easy to get blacklisted by. They’re great for a quick hack, but really not a great platform to work on top of.

]]> By: Thomas Landspurg http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-41873 Thomas Landspurg Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:08:21 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-41873 There was a lot of email to sms gateway in the early days of sms (98-99) until operators realize how big this market was. SMS were not free, but of course email was free. So then operators stopped these email to sms gateway.... But in europe, it's only the sender who pay, not the receiver. Note sure, but in the us, you pay when you receive alerts, right? There was a lot of email to sms gateway in the early days of sms (98-99) until operators realize how big this market was. SMS were not free, but of course email was free. So then operators stopped these email to sms gateway….

But in europe, it’s only the sender who pay, not the receiver. Note sure, but in the us, you pay when you receive alerts, right?

]]> By: miker http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-41870 miker Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:56:46 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-41870 Dan, I really hope you're right, and I'll do whatever I can to make it happen. However, I want to get reliable notifications to my handset today, and this is forcing me to look outside of mobile to service my needs. There's simply nothing available today for a realistic cost and effort that gets me what I need. I imagine the same will be true for others, folks will start wandering away, and everyone will use this as further proof that mobile isn't a workable environment yet. Dan, I really hope you’re right, and I’ll do whatever I can to make it happen. However, I want to get reliable notifications to my handset today, and this is forcing me to look outside of mobile to service my needs. There’s simply nothing available today for a realistic cost and effort that gets me what I need. I imagine the same will be true for others, folks will start wandering away, and everyone will use this as further proof that mobile isn’t a workable environment yet.

]]> By: Keith Erskine http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/23/us-carriers-requiring-shortcodes-developer-hostility-hits-a-new-high/#comment-41830 Keith Erskine Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:04:19 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=234#comment-41830 Don't forget, you also have to pay $500/month for a shortcode "lease" or $1,000/month for a "vanity" shortcode. Don’t forget, you also have to pay $500/month for a shortcode “lease” or $1,000/month for a “vanity” shortcode.

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