MM7 Schemas and MMS Version Number Confusion, revisited
Receiving this e-mail about a recent post got me thinking that it might be worth sharing these thoughts here. It’s got a little more opinion than other posts, but I think it is interesting for many people who are working with, or trying to work with, MM7. quote: Hi, I read the article, MM7 Schemas and MMS Version Number Confusion, and it answered the difference between mm7 verion and mms...
Read MoreMMSC Accounting Callbacks for Billing and Charging
MMSC accounting callbacks provide an interface between the NowSMS MMSC and external billing and charging systems. These MMSC accounting callbacks are HTTP-based. When accounting callbacks are enabled, the MMSC will issue HTTP requests to a customer supplied URL in order to interface with the customer billing and charging systems. To enable MMSC accounting callbacks, it is necessary to manually...
Read MoreMissing Text Parts from MMS Messages
A recent tech support incident where users were receiving MMS messages with missing text parts of the MMS content had us rather confused. The customer was using NowSMS as an MMSC, and encountered two devices, the Motorola RAZR V8 and ROKR Z6, which were unable to receive any text content within an MMS message. As a first step of troubleshooting, we recommended that the customer disable...
Read MoreSending Multimedia Content Push Messages with NowSMS
One of the ways that NowSMS can be used for multimedia content delivery is a service that we refer to as Multimedia Content Push (also referred to as Multimedia WAP Push). When you send a Multimedia WAP Push message with NowSMS, you post all of the message content (e.g., images, video, text, applet) to the NowSMS server. NowSMS packages the content and dynamically generates a URL on the NowSMS...
Read MoreSend OMA Client Provisioning (OTA XML) via PHP
OMA Provisioing Content Messages are special SMS messages that contain information used to configure certain settings of a mobile phone, such as settings for the browser (APN, proxy, bookmarks), MMS client, IM client, or SyncML client. These messages are sometimes referred to as OTA configuration messages, where OTA is an acronym for Over-The-Air. These settings are specified in an XML format,...
Read MoreSend WAP Push from Java (or JSP)
The previously posted examples for sending SMS and MMS messages from a Java application with NowSMS can also be used for sending WAP Push messages. Normally, when we talk about WAP Push messages, we are talking about “Service Indication” (SI) messages, which are a common type of WAP Push message. MMS Messages also use WAP Push for part of the delivery process, but they are handled...
Read MoreCreating a Bookmark using OMA Client Provisioning
A recent posting on the NowSMS discussion board raised an interesting question. How do you use OMA Client Provisioning to add a bookmark to a mobile phone? The NowSMS web interface has a simple function for doing this using the old Nokia/Ericsson OTA format (WAP OTA), however the web interface for OMA Client Provisioning only allows a browser home page URL to be defined. While the NowSMS web...
Read MoreSierra Wireless 881 USB Modem (881U) and NowSMS
The Sierra Wireless 881 USB Modem (881U) is a good modem to use with NowSMS. However, it can be a frustrating modem to get properly configured. The reason for this is because the primary market for this modem (and other USB modems) is to provide internet connectivity. If you’re looking at using this modem (or a similar modem) with NowSMS, it’s probably best not to purchase the...
Read MoreMM7 Schemas and MMS Version Number Confusion
In a recent posting, I posted a reference to the SMPP specification, which is the de facto standard for application generated SMS, as well as for interconnecting SMS systems. The most commonly used version of the SMPP specification was published 10 years ago. There are a few ambiguities in SMPP with regard to message encoding for long text messages, and delivery receipt formats. But overall,...
Read MorePremium Rate SMS (OPPC) with Verisign and NowSMS
Here at NowSMS, we make it a point not to endorse any particular SMS service provider. We like our customers to have flexibility to choose and change SMS service providers that best fit their needs. That said, some SMS service providers have unique configuration attributes, and you need to apply special configuration parameters in NowSMS in order to take advantage of features and flexibility...
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