SMS Send & Receive

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SMS Send & Receive

SMS Send & Receive is quite simply a web API for sending

and receiving SMS text messages.

At your disposal you have the Ericsson Labs Swedish short code 72223, as well as the shared international number +46 73 7494050.

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Main Features

Send different types of short messages

– Regular SMS

– Flash SMS

Register a ”service identifier” and have all incoming messages starting with this identifier forwarded to your web service.

Free SMS’s up to a limit (1000)

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SMS Send & Receive Overview

Service Identifier

SMS handler

Ericsson Labs

SMS ServerTo: 72223<keyword>

Send

SMS

Key authentication

Ericsson Labs

Developer Key

HTTP

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Server API

The send function provides a simple REST-like interface for sending SMS messages from either the international number or the Swedishshort code, the number used depends on the country code of the recipient.

The base URL for sending SMS messages has the following format.

http://sms.labs.ericsson.net/send

Requests are standard HTTP GET or POST, with parameters either placed in the URL or in the payload in the following manner:

key=[KEY]&to=[MSISDN]&message=[MESSAGE]

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Example application

SMS Billboard

- A dynamic screen to send comments to

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