SMS aggregation service provider

Can someone please tell me what are the pre-requisites for establishing an SMS Aggregation service (as a business), I am after the technology and implementation, a rough overview of what is involved (what components, ex. Gateway, carr开发者_StackOverflow社区ier, etc) will be great help.

Regards

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• Find partner(s) with the right infrastructure that offer you connection to the mobile world. You will have difficulty dealing with carriers directly, but there are some "super-aggregators" that are connected to several carriers and offer you their services. This partner deals for you with the low level stuff (routing & delivery on SS7 layer). Get connected to the partner, probably via SMPP, the de facto standard protocol for SMS over IP.

• Find many good customers. Offer them a broad range of interfaces like SMPP, HTTP, SOAP, ..., you name it.

• ...?

• Profit!

If you keep it like that you have an IP only infrastructure and you won't have to deal with the nasty parts of the SMS world (at least not technically).