[c-nsp] OT - system failure notifications

[Jon Lewis]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Adam Greene wrote:

> Our monitoring software currently sends out an alphanumeric page via a modem
> which connects to Verizon and alerts our pagers upon detecting a system
> failure. This works fine. However, we would prefer to replace our pagers
> with cell phones. The issue we are facing is that cell phone providers seem
> to be discontinuing their modem-based pager networks in favor of
> Internet-based SMS. So it seems like modem-based paging and cell phones just
> don't seem to go together.

What evidence do you have of cell phone providers discontinuing modem
gateway service?  We've been using this to send text messages to our
Nextels for years.  AFAIK, Nextel provides a modem gateway on the same
last 4 digits of every one of their NPA/NXX's.

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