What are delivery receipts?
Amazingly enough they're basically what they sound they're like, their a receipt back to advise if your message has been delivered.
Are all delivery receipts equal?
They should be, but it can be a matter or interpretation and here's what I mean - typically when a SMS provider sends a message through to a network, they should get an initial receipt which advises whether the message has been accepted or not, from there on a successfully delivered message should come a second delivery receipt to advise that the message has been successfully sent to the handset (mobile phone).
With us, we typically use a "sent" status to advise that the relevant network has accepted the message and will forward it on to the phone, and then a "delivered" status to say that the phone has received the message.
Other typical status' generally for SMS might be "failed" or "expired" - failed is when the network rejects the message, the number might be wrong or disconnected. Then expired is when the network has attempted to reach the handset but has time out - if could be the phone was been switched off, out of reach from the network or overseas without international roaming.
Now these are our status' - not all providers use the same terms, some might say received instead of delivered or my favourite "read", to that end they're just words and let me assure you that there is nothing within the protocols for SMS that allow you to know if someone has read the message or not, just to know whether the phone has received it.
Why is it important?
It's important to use a provider that offers delivery receipts on all messages, otherwise how do you know the message has been received? i look at delivery receipts like registered post - if I need to get something across to someone else, then I trust the delivery receipts to back up my claims that in fact the information was delivered, in the same way a solicitor will use registered post to say person x received their letter.
The cost of the message is never the face value of the SMS, but in value of the information, or the actions that person x, y or z was going to do with it. So if you only receive receipts on 90% of your messages, then who knows what the 10% are getting, and how that might impact on your business.
Of course value is an individual thing, and what one person places a given value on something might differ from the next persons valuation - and that's something that is down to you. the basic up shot is that without delivery receipts, you don't know what's going on and you should ask yourself how is that effecting your business.
Thanks and enjoy.
Cheers,
C
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Firstly, happy new year to everyone, and I hope it was a great night, and a great year to come.
Something that I admit I haven't been consistent enough with is giving help with regards to SMS in my blogs, so this year I'm committing myself to at least once a week, giving short brief and concise blogs on different things surrounding SMS services.
Through out the year we'll cover off things like what are virtual numbers, delivery receipts, interconnect fees, and so on - basically all the jargon that you might hear from SMS providers, or will hear no doubt, and also an open understanding to it's importance.
It's probably fair enough to say that none of this should really blow your socks off, but hopefully will help clarify things for you - and if you are looking at a service, possibly will help you understand what it is you want from the service, what you should expect and so on.
If you have any questions about any of the following information, then please don't hesitate to contact me directly via email at chris.bartlett@esendex.com or via phone on +61 3 9595 3871, thanks.
Regards,
Chris
Something that I admit I haven't been consistent enough with is giving help with regards to SMS in my blogs, so this year I'm committing myself to at least once a week, giving short brief and concise blogs on different things surrounding SMS services.
Through out the year we'll cover off things like what are virtual numbers, delivery receipts, interconnect fees, and so on - basically all the jargon that you might hear from SMS providers, or will hear no doubt, and also an open understanding to it's importance.
It's probably fair enough to say that none of this should really blow your socks off, but hopefully will help clarify things for you - and if you are looking at a service, possibly will help you understand what it is you want from the service, what you should expect and so on.
If you have any questions about any of the following information, then please don't hesitate to contact me directly via email at chris.bartlett@esendex.com or via phone on +61 3 9595 3871, thanks.
Regards,
Chris
Monday, 7 December 2009
FIFA World cup - go aussies
Driving into work today I was listening to SEN, the sports radio station here, and they were talking about the World Cup with that idiot Patrick Smith talking with the great KB about it.
KB, like me, was enthused by the draw and said we should go in with some confidence, and Patrick Smith was saying that it was so difficult that we're unlikely to get passed the group stages - in fact bookies are giving us 150 to 1 odds of getting through, so I'm off to put some money down on that bet, because for $100 it will be the easiest $15,000 I'll ever win!
With my limited knowledge on the history of World Soccer, let's have a look at this.
Australia is currently ranked 21st in the world - in September we were ranked as high as 14th.
Serbia is currently ranked 20th and again in September were ranked 13th.
Germany ranked 6th, in September ranks 4th, and earlier in the year for over 12 months had bee ranked 2nd.
Ghana is ranked 37th, and in September were 32nd.
Yes, they're all good teams, Germany will be tough but not impossible - we played them once in a World Cup match were they beat us 3-0, but that must have been the first time we got to the world cup in the 70's and got smashed by everyone. Since then we've played once more, and lost 3-4, a very honourable score line for a country who has soccer ranked as their 4th or 5th major national team sport?
Ghana we've played a few times, and the ledger is on our side, so there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to beat these guys.
The game against Serbia I think will be the decider as to who goes through or not - we seem to be one rank behind them for some time and my gut tells me that we're an even stevens contest against them and will come down to who takes their opportunities.
My prediction is that we will lose to Germany 2-1, beat Ghana 2-0 and beat Serbia 2-1 putting us through to the next stage against England.
We'll be England because they're chokers and then play France in the Quarter Finals - now my head says we'll lose that, but then we performed incredibly well against Italy last time around, showing that we can compete, and we duffed a few goal scoring opportunities against Brazil in for me one of the most entertaining matches of the cup, even though we got a pasting it was non stop action. So if we do beat France, although that's unlikely even for an optimist like myself, guess who'll be the lucky buggers to play Brazil - we will in a 7-2 pasting goal fest, they'll smash the pants off us as if they were made of glass, but will be fun to watch none the less.
So to those out there that feel as though we don't have a chance, chance a $100, win $15k and enjoy the games because I think it will be a cracker, and you're a cracker if you don't think we have a chance.
Go boys!
Enjoy,
C
KB, like me, was enthused by the draw and said we should go in with some confidence, and Patrick Smith was saying that it was so difficult that we're unlikely to get passed the group stages - in fact bookies are giving us 150 to 1 odds of getting through, so I'm off to put some money down on that bet, because for $100 it will be the easiest $15,000 I'll ever win!
With my limited knowledge on the history of World Soccer, let's have a look at this.
Australia is currently ranked 21st in the world - in September we were ranked as high as 14th.
Serbia is currently ranked 20th and again in September were ranked 13th.
Germany ranked 6th, in September ranks 4th, and earlier in the year for over 12 months had bee ranked 2nd.
Ghana is ranked 37th, and in September were 32nd.
Yes, they're all good teams, Germany will be tough but not impossible - we played them once in a World Cup match were they beat us 3-0, but that must have been the first time we got to the world cup in the 70's and got smashed by everyone. Since then we've played once more, and lost 3-4, a very honourable score line for a country who has soccer ranked as their 4th or 5th major national team sport?
Ghana we've played a few times, and the ledger is on our side, so there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to beat these guys.
The game against Serbia I think will be the decider as to who goes through or not - we seem to be one rank behind them for some time and my gut tells me that we're an even stevens contest against them and will come down to who takes their opportunities.
My prediction is that we will lose to Germany 2-1, beat Ghana 2-0 and beat Serbia 2-1 putting us through to the next stage against England.
We'll be England because they're chokers and then play France in the Quarter Finals - now my head says we'll lose that, but then we performed incredibly well against Italy last time around, showing that we can compete, and we duffed a few goal scoring opportunities against Brazil in for me one of the most entertaining matches of the cup, even though we got a pasting it was non stop action. So if we do beat France, although that's unlikely even for an optimist like myself, guess who'll be the lucky buggers to play Brazil - we will in a 7-2 pasting goal fest, they'll smash the pants off us as if they were made of glass, but will be fun to watch none the less.
So to those out there that feel as though we don't have a chance, chance a $100, win $15k and enjoy the games because I think it will be a cracker, and you're a cracker if you don't think we have a chance.
Go boys!
Enjoy,
C
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Over the weekend, I was thinking about my belly, and how I'd like to lose it for my upcoming wedding in June, and I've always been partial to those meal replacement drinks - mainly because I like milk shakes and they're easy, no thought required.
So I stumbled upon an aussie website call www.becominghealthy.com.au and what got my interest was that they had different shakes for different requirements, and also offered free help from their dietitian Bill Cootes.
I'm glad to say I've purchased my shakes, and am now waiting to get them across which should be a couple of days away, but that's not what I wanted to blog about. What I wanted to blog about was something that Bill ran through with e today...
I was talking to Bill about my height weight, what I want to get down to what I'm doing now, etc... and I mentioned that normally I would drink 8 to 10 coffees a day, a lot I know, but I have a habit of drinking it like water, I have my mug by me and just keep drinking away, then I might have one or two when I get home.
So Bill got me to write some figures down and do some calculations.
I have 2 sugars with my coffee, so 16 teaspoons of sugar a day, and there are 6 grams of sugar in a teaspoon = 96 grams of sugar x 4 calories = 384 calories from the sugar in my coffee alone per day.
Now in 1kg of body fat there are 9000 calories. So if you decide to eat someone, don't eat the crackling I guess?
So if you take 384 calories from sugar in my coffee multiplied by 365 days a year = 140,160 calories, divide that by 9000 calories or 1kg of body fat and that's a touch over 15.5kgs, 34 pounds or 2.4 stone in the really old measure.
Now I don't drink that many coffee's on the weekend, because I don't have a pot of coffee ready to be pured like I do in the office here, but I thought it was amazing to think with all the fad diets out there, that something so small a change in my life style could potentially have such an effect on me.
Cool huh?
Enjoy,
C
So I stumbled upon an aussie website call www.becominghealthy.com.au and what got my interest was that they had different shakes for different requirements, and also offered free help from their dietitian Bill Cootes.
I'm glad to say I've purchased my shakes, and am now waiting to get them across which should be a couple of days away, but that's not what I wanted to blog about. What I wanted to blog about was something that Bill ran through with e today...
I was talking to Bill about my height weight, what I want to get down to what I'm doing now, etc... and I mentioned that normally I would drink 8 to 10 coffees a day, a lot I know, but I have a habit of drinking it like water, I have my mug by me and just keep drinking away, then I might have one or two when I get home.
So Bill got me to write some figures down and do some calculations.
I have 2 sugars with my coffee, so 16 teaspoons of sugar a day, and there are 6 grams of sugar in a teaspoon = 96 grams of sugar x 4 calories = 384 calories from the sugar in my coffee alone per day.
Now in 1kg of body fat there are 9000 calories. So if you decide to eat someone, don't eat the crackling I guess?
So if you take 384 calories from sugar in my coffee multiplied by 365 days a year = 140,160 calories, divide that by 9000 calories or 1kg of body fat and that's a touch over 15.5kgs, 34 pounds or 2.4 stone in the really old measure.
Now I don't drink that many coffee's on the weekend, because I don't have a pot of coffee ready to be pured like I do in the office here, but I thought it was amazing to think with all the fad diets out there, that something so small a change in my life style could potentially have such an effect on me.
Cool huh?
Enjoy,
C
Friday, 6 November 2009
Yes, it's been confirmed with the purchase of a new Trek, that I have turned... into a cyclist!
So here I am, recently I mentioned that I might have turned... into a cyclist, now I can confirm the change has occurred, with football only a faint memory in my mind I have now found my new sport to pursue, cycling.
I picked up my new Trek today, had it fitted, and got all my goodies that would allow me to be the fastest racer between the ages of 32.25 and 32.33 in the St Kilda East area that in live on the third floor of an apartment with a GF and a really big dog!
OK, so I'm aiming to be the champ within a field range small enough to be just me in it, or on the other hand unlikely to have a gun cyclist fit into the same category, but hey, it's a goal.
Now, if you didn't already guess, I love racing, as long as you can control/drive/ride it, I say race it, and sell the TV rights so I can watch it on a Sunday - and what I really like about the bikes, from a riders perspective, once you've got a bike and a helmet, you're pretty right to go racing.
In the past I'd looked at racing my RS250 that was sitting in the shed, but to be fair, with the cost of tyres, transport, upkeep of the bike, and other associated costs, you're talking quite big money, and that's before you consider being competitive.
So my true goal is now, to build up some miles in the old pasty white legs, lost a few kg's along the way, and hopefully before the end of Q1 for 2010, I will have gotten out there and at least had a race.
Can I also thank Jae from Omara Cycling for his advice with the bike, setup and all the extra goodies, and generally the deal he did for me, it was great, a pleasure to deal with, and the confidence that I can hit the streets with everything I need and armed with some helpful information to make it a good experience.
Jae has also promised to start using our service too, so kids, there might be a holiday afterwards!! Thanks Jae.
(probably not - holidays are for the weak :)
Enjoy and have a great weekend!
C
I picked up my new Trek today, had it fitted, and got all my goodies that would allow me to be the fastest racer between the ages of 32.25 and 32.33 in the St Kilda East area that in live on the third floor of an apartment with a GF and a really big dog!
OK, so I'm aiming to be the champ within a field range small enough to be just me in it, or on the other hand unlikely to have a gun cyclist fit into the same category, but hey, it's a goal.
Now, if you didn't already guess, I love racing, as long as you can control/drive/ride it, I say race it, and sell the TV rights so I can watch it on a Sunday - and what I really like about the bikes, from a riders perspective, once you've got a bike and a helmet, you're pretty right to go racing.
In the past I'd looked at racing my RS250 that was sitting in the shed, but to be fair, with the cost of tyres, transport, upkeep of the bike, and other associated costs, you're talking quite big money, and that's before you consider being competitive.
So my true goal is now, to build up some miles in the old pasty white legs, lost a few kg's along the way, and hopefully before the end of Q1 for 2010, I will have gotten out there and at least had a race.
Can I also thank Jae from Omara Cycling for his advice with the bike, setup and all the extra goodies, and generally the deal he did for me, it was great, a pleasure to deal with, and the confidence that I can hit the streets with everything I need and armed with some helpful information to make it a good experience.
Jae has also promised to start using our service too, so kids, there might be a holiday afterwards!! Thanks Jae.
(probably not - holidays are for the weak :)
Enjoy and have a great weekend!
C
Thursday, 5 November 2009
So it's the Spring Carnival, and we're coming towards the end of the big races - and what a set of races it's been.
I must admit, it's great to be in Melbourne when it's all happening - all of a sudden racing experts appear out of the wood work, and people gather in the kitchen here in the office to watch the big races, speaking about trainers, jockeys and horses they hadn't heard of more than two days ago.
Personally I'd like to thank Faint Perfume for getting me back onto the right side of the ledger today - I lost $30 on the Melbourne Cup, and won $40 on the Stakes today (using a free bet :) ), so I'm more than happy.
In fact I think I might throw caution to the wind and put the $10 I'm up on another horse and see what happens!
Go horsies go!!
Enjoy,
C
I must admit, it's great to be in Melbourne when it's all happening - all of a sudden racing experts appear out of the wood work, and people gather in the kitchen here in the office to watch the big races, speaking about trainers, jockeys and horses they hadn't heard of more than two days ago.
Personally I'd like to thank Faint Perfume for getting me back onto the right side of the ledger today - I lost $30 on the Melbourne Cup, and won $40 on the Stakes today (using a free bet :) ), so I'm more than happy.
In fact I think I might throw caution to the wind and put the $10 I'm up on another horse and see what happens!
Go horsies go!!
Enjoy,
C
Monday, 2 November 2009
Well done Mark
I just wanted to congratulate Mark Webber on an outstanding year, and an outstanding final race too.
I sat up until 2:00am watching the race, and was enthralled by it - with 9 laps to go Jensen nearly 5 seconds behind, started taking chunks out of Marks lead over him, and on the last lap with Marks car not handling as it had been to hold the world champ off to claim second was amazing.
Considering Jensen is the best over taker in the business, it was a pleasure to watch.
But for Mark who came fourth in the championship I think is a real testament to his driving ability when you consider the following.
During the off season he had a nasty accident where he broke his leg, and was in doubt to even start the season, and was using pain killers whilst driving all the way up to the Spain GP. Then with other things like battling against the double diffuser of Brawn and some issues with reliability to boot, I think he's done an outstanding job, and hope to see him higher in the order next year.
And I still think that his first win in Germany was one of the best I've seen - in the past, and was acknowledged by Vettel yesterday, generally speaking after the first couple of laps that order was generally the order the races finished in, and obviously this year has been different, but for Mark to get a drive through penalty, which I still think was too harsh, and yet still go on to win the race, after effectively pitting once more than his next closest challenger in the race, just shows some great driving skill.
It's only a shame that now, I have one more Moto GP race to watch, but three of my favourite sports are done now for about 6 months, I'm left wondering what I'll be staying up late for now?
Maybe I'll take up reading?
Enjoy,
C
I sat up until 2:00am watching the race, and was enthralled by it - with 9 laps to go Jensen nearly 5 seconds behind, started taking chunks out of Marks lead over him, and on the last lap with Marks car not handling as it had been to hold the world champ off to claim second was amazing.
Considering Jensen is the best over taker in the business, it was a pleasure to watch.
But for Mark who came fourth in the championship I think is a real testament to his driving ability when you consider the following.
During the off season he had a nasty accident where he broke his leg, and was in doubt to even start the season, and was using pain killers whilst driving all the way up to the Spain GP. Then with other things like battling against the double diffuser of Brawn and some issues with reliability to boot, I think he's done an outstanding job, and hope to see him higher in the order next year.
And I still think that his first win in Germany was one of the best I've seen - in the past, and was acknowledged by Vettel yesterday, generally speaking after the first couple of laps that order was generally the order the races finished in, and obviously this year has been different, but for Mark to get a drive through penalty, which I still think was too harsh, and yet still go on to win the race, after effectively pitting once more than his next closest challenger in the race, just shows some great driving skill.
It's only a shame that now, I have one more Moto GP race to watch, but three of my favourite sports are done now for about 6 months, I'm left wondering what I'll be staying up late for now?
Maybe I'll take up reading?
Enjoy,
C
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