Anthony’s last blog post..Artistic touch… screen: Tux Paint-ing

BT landlines have been SMS enabled for years, but the SMS goes to a handset. aql are an SMS aggregator and are a telecommunications provider (ie “like” BT, but not BT).

The clever bit is that the messages can be grabbed and delivered to applications that can then do other things with the messages, such as deliver them into callcentre CRM solutions, or send auto-responders (like the example above…).

hope this helps explain – if you’d like a few free numbers to play with to see how it works, just contact us via http://try.aql.com

I guess it’s cool if a company sends texts from a callable number – but it’s not exactly new.

Incidentally, one of the rumours around landline SMS was that the networks had noticed how many (uncharged) texts were being rejected because they were sent to a landline…