Hello, Honestly I don’t know where this belongs. Hopefully This is the right place. A good friend of mine works in a small non profit community that gives phone service to people who can’t afford it. I get into the private lte part later on. I just wanted to cover the freepbx side of things for testing.
He ask me if I can help him setup a phone service. First thing I can think about is freepbx. Because I have used it many times and find it awesome. There are a lot of unknowns. I know for a fact I phone apps that I have connected to my freepbx server and made phone calls. I heard there is a way to send sms and mms text which I have never done before from one extention to another.
I was wondering if it is possible to send sms and mms from a pbx extention to an non freepbx phone number such as a normal cell phone and receive it back to the freepbx system?
As far as the private Lte side of things I will have to figure that part later on. If anyone has done anything with private lte please let me know?
I’m just trying to get some general understanding how I can integrate sms and sms into freepbx and something more later on. Please someone help me to figure this out.
I’m pretty sure there is no standardised way of sending MMS from VoIP phones, or any standard way of passing it to VoIP provides. Even SMS is provider and phone dependent, with providers not generally supporting the SIP MESSAGE method.
Aren’t you in the US? All of this is going to require you to be a registered VSP with the FCC. SMS is going to require 10DLC compliance and registration…
This is something I’ve not fully understood as non-US. I get “why” it has to be done. But getting a Campaign approval done with the TCR has always felt like the goal post gets moved when you take a shot at it. A colleague spent 3 months trying to get one done in one instance. Got an earful from the customer and TCR just kept moving the goal ever so slightly.
What’s the hope for individuals using VoIP as personal lines? Absolutely no chance to get SMS going?
If you are in the USA, there is more at stake than texting if you plan to offer phone service to people who cannot afford it via FreePBX. That is when you get into even more registration issues with the FCC including STIR/SHAKEN compliance, E911 compliance, and a host of other issues that make it nearly impossible for a small organization to offer service. A non-profit would require a lot of donations and income plus personnel just to manage such a service.
If your friend wants to become a telcom service provider, there will be many hurdles which will make the job very complex. The non-profit would also open themselves up to liability if they fail to follow all the rules of providing the service.
@BlazeStudios No that is for blocking extentions from talking to each other this is for private lte stuff that I’m asking right now about freefbx and sms text. That is a totally different thing.