Sending ringtones to a phone number

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Sending ringtones to a phone number

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Could anyone point me in the right direction for how I would go about sending ringtones to a phone, just from having the given cell phone number.... in php of course :)

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GeXus wrote:Could anyone point me in the right direction for how I would go about sending ringtones to a phone, just from having the given cell phone number.... in php of course :)

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The way it's often done these days is to send an MMS message through a gateway provider such as Kapow containing the URL to the ringtone. Upon clicking the URL the mobile phone prompts for download.
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Hm... Yeah that won't really work, because the service this will be free and high volume, based on avg pricing for MMS credits, it would cost over 50k/day.
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Problem is, you gonna need to use an SMS Gateway, and there aren't many that are free.

Someone is going to incur a cost somewhere down the line
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Do the gateway providers have deals with the carriers or is it simply a matter of licensing their software?
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GeXus wrote:Do the gateway providers have deals with the carriers or is it simply a matter of licensing their software?
The gateway providers usually own GSM hardware and pay network rates themselves. There's no such things as free. If you need to use the network like that you have to pay.

You can buy your own GSM hardware but it's still going to cost you whatever your provider charges you.
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