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Problems with TAP SMS over PSTN

Posted on February 27, 2013February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Problem: Having only just realized that the O2 SMS gateway is not reliable [when I first realised I should have had alerts, I thought my SD2 dialler had died], I have contacted O2 who are looking into the service, and they maintain that it should be running at the time of writing [November 2011] but advise me that it will cease operation around April 2012. I have discovered a long list of TAP ...
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING TEXECOM SMS SERVICE CENTRE NUMBERS

Posted on February 27, 2013June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Please see below for an important announcement from Texecom regarding the SMS Service Centre Numbers: SMS Service Centre Numbers Texecom have been notified that the O2 network and the TAP gateway used for SMS texting via PSTN will be switched off at the end of March 2012. The O2 centre number (07860 980480) has been unreliable for a period of time and on numerous occasions the service has...
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Vodafone Tap Gateway

Posted on February 27, 2013June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Well it looks like the Vodafone TAP is getting less reliable every day. Today it was only sending around 10% of messages from a Castle Euro 46. Tried it on 2 other panels at different sites, story was the same. Pyronix/Castle keep selling it though. Why do they release bulletins like this http://shl.createsen...C70DBB5D28FA0F4 claiming it is reliable when the TAP is out of their control. ...
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Vodafone SMS TAP gateway

Posted on February 27, 2013February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Is there a TAP gateway in NZ into the Vodafone network that can be used to inject paging messages with SMS client or similar software? If so, does anyone know the phone number and access details? Thanks. NO... But OpenTAP from DIDcomms its the only free of charge and reliable TAP gateway in the UK at present. The only catch is you must register to use the service which prevents fraud and te...
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TAP Access Number

Posted on February 27, 2013June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

At our shop we have a piece of kit that calls up a mobile number to communicate to our mobiles with text messages that vtell us when the alarm is set/unset, alarms and other stuff. The number it calls is 07960 980480, but this number now seems either permanently engaged or just doesn't answer at all. O2 (who run the number) don't seem to even know what i'm talking about! Vodafone also have a...
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Do you use TAP messaging on your Honeywell Galaxy alarm systems?

Posted on January 6, 2013April 20, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

If you have "Honeywell Galaxy or Texecom alarm systems" and you used to use the O2 TAP messaging service which was withdraw in 2011 or you currently use the Vodafone TAP messaging service and you are dissatisfied with their service, we have the solution for you! DIDcomms have just released in December 2012 the OpenTAP Gateway the free of charge TAP to SMS/Email messaging PSTN dial-up service. T...
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EE 4G UK: Devices, speeds, availability, coverage, prices

Posted on November 28, 2012April 20, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

UPDATED: Now with prices 30 October 2012 7:25 GMT / By Dan Sung & Chris Hall Everything Everywhere is now available in the UK, with a new network and a new brand, known simply as EE bringing with it the first 4G service in the UK. Now that the auction for other 4G spectrum bands has been brought forward in order to stave off possible appeals and gripes by the network's rivals. The new EE...
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Orange and T-Mobile UK merge to crush O2 and Vodafone

Posted on September 18, 2012January 5, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Orange and T-Mobile are to merge. Currently the third and fourth biggest mobile phone providers in the UK, the two companies are being combined by Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom to form the UK's largest, as-yet-unnamed network, like some kind of Power Ranger-style megazord phone network. Deutsche Telekom owns T-Mobile, which employs 6,500 workers in the UK, and France Telecom owns Oran...
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Vodafone agrees £1bn takeover of C&W Worldwide

Posted on August 19, 2012December 26, 2014 by Daniel Kobale

Nick Brown, Telecoms Analyst at Espirito Santo Bank: Move may signal "more convergence" UK mobile phone giant Vodafone has agreed to buy telecoms group Cable & Wireless Worldwide (C&WW) in a deal valuing the firm at just over £1bn. Vodafone was left as C&WW's only suitor after India's Tata Communications ended its interest in the firm last week. Under the terms of the deal, Vo...
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