Send Messages

Overview

The Playground Send Messages service provides you with the ability to send SMS and MMS messages to mobile terminals or other SMS/MMS enabled devices from your application. The Send Messages service can be used as standalone services for delivering content like text, images and/or audio or bundled with other Playground services.

Features

The Playground Send Messages Services currently has the following features:

• Sending of SMS text messages from application to mobile handset
• Sending of MMS messages from application to mobile handset
• Message delivery status reporting
• Support for sending of binary SMSs like ring tones and logos
• Group delivery of messages to multiple recipients

Usage Examples

The Playground Send Messages service is used to send messages to a subscribers mobile phone based on the phone number of the subscriber. The messages can contain information in the form of simple text (SMS) or a combination of images, text, and audio (MMS). This function can be used to deliver catalogue services, weather forecasts, news alerts, logos and ringtones, images etc. to mobile phones.

Java Code Sample:

// Example of using send SMS service in java
// For this example "4755551234" represents recipients number including
// country code (47), "260166" represents senders number as shown to the 
// recipient of the message, "ChargingInformation" is not supported in 
// playground and may be set to null. The "message text" represents the actual 
// content of the SMS
String response = SmsSenderservice.sendSms("4755551234", "260166",
        chargingInformation, "message text", simpleReference);

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