Adam Kennedy <adamkennedy@watchcomm.net> writes:
I picked up two of the AT&T "Beam" USB devices that use the LTE network. Netgear is the listed manufacturer and has firmware for the units that makes them usable on Linux. I loaded the driver for those into a Debian box and I'm able to use smstools open source software to send SMS from the unit directly to cell network. The AT&T Beam's were $20 I think and cost us about $15/mo as additional lines on our corporate plan.
Note that messaging in LTE networks tend to use IP, just like voice in LTE networks. It seems a little awkward having to use an LTE device just to set up a dedicated IP VPN for SMS delivery if you have any other fixed IP access at the site... But I guess hiding all the nasty IMS implementation details in the LTE module firmware, controlling it by standard GSM AT commands, has some benefit here. At least the firmware source code is unavailable so you don't see how hideous it is :) Bjørn