>>>>I have a request to allow a user to enter a cell phone number for sending a sms message. I can make it all work except I can't find a way to figure out who the cell phone carrier is so I can complete the address. Anyone know how to do this?
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>>>Users can move the same number between different carriers, so it would be difficult.
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>>>Is it possible to just add a field for the users to choose a carrier?
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>>But Skype does it, somehow. Are they storing the carriers' dialing ranges, or what? That'd be one very large table. I wonder how do they do it, and if it's a table, how do (did) they fill it.
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>Dialing ranges would sort of help.
>However, I can have a number that from Verizon and then take my number with me to T-Mobile.
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>Another alternative is to just TRY all the permutations of how to send the SMS via email.
>One of them must work.
>You could even log the permutations that errored so you don't try them next time.
This got me curious. I googled "how does skype send sms", and after weeding out the propaganda pages, this came up:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=108312http://sourceforge.net/projects/skype4py/Thanks to the fact that Skype exists on Linux as well. The answer may be somewhere in that Python library.
