Anyone interested in supporting SMPP interworking at 32C3?

Sylvain brought this up yesterday: Wouldn't it be nice to have some degree of SMS interfacing from OpenBSC/OsmoNITB to the real world at 32C3? It is something that we've never tried so far, and thus definitely worthy of testing.

Of course, full interworking is not possible without assigning public MSISDN to all internal subscribers / 'extensions' how we call them.

But what would most certainly work is to have at least outbound SMS working by means of an external SMPP interface.

The OsmoNITB-internal SMSC speaks SMPP already (in the SMSC role), so we would need to implement some small amount of glue logic that behaves as ESME (external SMS entity) towards both OsmoNITB as well as some public SMS operator/reseller that speaks SMPP again.

Now of course, sending SMS to public operators doesn't come for free. So in case anyone reading this has access to SMPP at public operators, resellers, SMS hubs, it would be interesting to see if there is a chance for some funding/sponsoring of that experiment.

Feel free to contact me if you see a way to make this happen.