Use this API to create your own service for sending and receiving text messages on the Internet. You can:

• send SMS worldwide (with notification of receipt);
• create a service for receiving SMS on your web application, it can save you more money;
• use this API to bill your customers using our premium numbers (micro-payment for mobile ringtones for example);
• and many other applications!

Notes when using the SMS API:

• this service for sending and receiving SMS is not just for Orange mobile customers, it can be used to send and receive text messages to numerous destinations worldwide;
• notification of receipt or acknowledgment lets you know if the SMS has been delivered to the mobile phone;
• various SMS features are supported (such as SMS over 160 characters);
• two types of encryption are available: GSM 7-bit UCS-2, which lets you write SMS in using all alphabets;
• the start of "session" between your application and a mobile is available. These sessions can be used to avoid using keywords to send an MO SMS to your application for a period of 24 hours if your application has sent a first MT SMS to the mobile or if the user has sent an SMS MO in the first instance;
• it is possible to personalize the SMS sender (i.e. the From field) which is displayed on the mobile phone receiving the SMS.

• obtain the consent (opt-in) of the owners who will receive text messages;
• not send SMS that can affect how a mobile phone works;
• not send violent or pornographic messages;
• abide by the specific rules for the numbers: 31244, 51244 and 71244 which can be found on our website.