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Important message for all OpenTAP gateway users

Posted on August 12, 2019February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Introducing OpenTAP, the UK's No.1 TAP to SMS Text Messaging Gateway, approved by Texecom, Honeywell and Pyronix. The Vodafone TAP gateway is unreliable and no longer recommended by the alarm manufacturers. Its time to switch to OpenTAP, the managed and reliable TAP to SMS text messaging gateway which is approved by all the major alarm manufacturers. Just input the OpenTAP access number 090186000...
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TAP to SMS Text Messaging Gateway

Posted on August 5, 2019February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

TAP to SMS Text Messaging Gateway for your home and business intruder security alarm system. The UK's No.1 TAP Gateway! Established since 2012. PSTN to VoIP/SIP Compliant. Just install a VoIP phone converter. Recommended by Texecom, Honeywell and Pyronix How do I register to use the OpenTAP gateway? First of all, you need to register all mobile numbers which are to receive text messag...
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International access numbers for the OpenTAP to SMS text message gateway

Posted on October 15, 2018May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

OpenTAP to SMS text messaging gateway International access numbers. Great News! Thanks to one of our number providers, we are now able to provide our international customers with a local direct access numbers for OpenTAP. Australia: +61145143423 Belgium: +32468781170 Spain: +34806524708 UK: +449117329997
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OpenTAP access number changes

Posted on October 3, 2018February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Due to the new Ofcom regulation changes effective immediately you are required to change the access number for OpenTAP Due to legislation and regulation changes, Ofcom has decided that as of October 1st, 2019 all 070 Personal Numbers will be re-rated to the cost of a mobile call. Therefore we can no longer support OpenTAP on the current access numbers 07045607101 or 07011106620. You must therefor...
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Vodafone Paging Network Closure

Posted on February 23, 2018February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Vodafone closes down their paging network. Vodafone have announced that they will be closing their wide-area national paging network by 31st March 2018. This means that any Vodafone Paging customers who have not made alternative arrangements will lose their paging service on this date. Vodafone will shut down its pager network by the end of the after reaching an impasse with competition watchd...
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Stop using the Vodafone service center number for your alarm systems!

Posted on January 22, 2018February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Stop using the Vodafone service centre number for your alarm systems and other monitoring! Stop using the Vodafone TAP gateway access number +447785499993 for your alarm TAP to Text (SMS) messaging. It's unreliable and is not a dedicated managed TAP gateway! Its time you switched to OpenTAP, established since 2012-2018 and its the UK's only official TAP gateway which has been approved by Texec...
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Are you still using the Vodafone access number for TAP to SMS (Mobile Text) Messaging?

Posted on November 11, 2017February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

STOP and Switch to OpenTAP now! The Vodafone TAP gateway access number isn't even a managed service and completely unreliable. If you call Vodafone and ask them for help, they will not help you as their TAP access number is an old legacy pager gateway. Its neither managed nor maintained for the alarm monitoring, it's just been used as such for many years. OpenTAP has been established since 20...
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Announcement: OpenTAP hosted with Stem Group Plymouth UK

Posted on June 25, 2015June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Hi Everyone, We would like to announce our partnership with Stem Group Ltd (Plymouth), the Southwest's leading hosting data centre. We have been looking for a co-location hosting provider/partner for a while and after some hunting, we chose Stem Group Ltd in Plymouth (Devon), not only for ease of access being close to our head office, but also because of their network reliability and custome...
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OpenTAP – NEWS UPDATE 2015

Posted on January 28, 2015February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

NOTICE TO ALL "OPEN-TAP" CUSTOMERS! Please be informed that the ONLY primary access number which should currently be used is UK: 09018600011 (calls cost 35p per call plus your network provider access charge) INTERNATIONAL: +448726149997 Any other 070 access numbers are purely back up numbers and should NOT BE used as primary access numbers. If you are a new customer looking for a rel...
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Notice to all OpenTAP users about modem software settings!

Posted on September 17, 2014February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

We recently have had a few customers who are using computer-based modem and compatible TAP software with OpenTAP and they have been having trouble dialling up and sending messages via our OpenTAP dial-up access numbers. Some times for some reason with some customers modems and their software it will not work properly with the PARITY setting of NONE (NULL). Try changing the PARITY setting to TRU...
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