Re: [Linphone-users] Text 3.7 Linphone

[Sagar Behere]

On 04/29/2014 10:09 AM, joe wrote:
> Hey Sagar,
>           that begs the question Why Not SMS, is it that hard? there
>           must be a way surely,

As I understand it, VoIP is a separate 'thing' from telephony. Both, SMS 
as well as calling telephone numbers are telephony 'things' and so to be 
able cross over from VoIP into telephony and vice versa, you need a VoIP 
service provider who sets up the 'bridge' between VoIP and telephony.

IF your VoIP provider has such a 'bridge' THEN you can make/receive 
calls to/from regular phone numbers with linphone, because there is a 
standardized way to do this. For SMS on the other hand (and I'm really 
making a wild guess here) I don't know if there is a standardized way to 
bridge the VoIP and telephony worlds. Therefore, linphone (probably?) 
does not support it.

For example, my VoIP provider, localphone.com, allows me to call phones 
from VoIP clients like linphone, but if I have send an SMS, that has to 
be done via their website.

Hope this helps,
Sagar

> > Note that this 'text messaging' is not the same as SMS. In
> > particular, I *THINK* that if the contact is not on-line, the message
> > will not be delivered.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sagar
> >
> >
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