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Kannel: Open-Source WAP and SMS Gateway

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103 points thunderbong | 2 comments | 21 Dec 24 10:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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joecool1029 ◴[21 Dec 24 16:37 UTC] No.42480583[source]▶
Weird to see this mentioned now since I just mentioned it a few comments ago. But if you just have an old device and need a WAP 1.0 gateway you can use this: https://nbpfan.bs0dd.net/index.php?lang=eng&page=wap%2Fmain

Here's a pic of my first cellphone loading it earlier this year: https://files.catbox.moe/cmi78w.jpeg

Newer mid-2000's phones are WAP 2.0 and don't need a gateway (they also mostly support j2me, so this is the way to have a mostly usable browser with opera mini, otherwise pretty much all TLS sites but m.google.com will fail)

EDIT: I am on t-mobile and they shut down their WAP gateway ages ago with the exception of MMS.

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1. lhamil64 ◴[22 Dec 24 18:59 UTC] No.42488301[source]▶
Out of curiosity, how did you get your old phone online? Did it have wifi, or were you able to get it on an actual mobile network? I thought I heard the 2g/3g networks have mostly shut down, at least in the US
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2. joecool1029 ◴[22 Dec 24 21:40 UTC] No.42489360[source]▶
> Did it have wifi, or were you able to get it on an actual mobile network?

Actual network. The phone pictured is from 2002, it did not have wifi. I had to solder in a new battery to get that far.

3G is shut down, 2G remains on with T-Mobile in areas they had it previously. As I stated before you need an old SIM card to use 2G only devices on the network. Newer cards activated in the past 5-7 years or so will only work on 2G with a 3G or newer phone.