[Gllug] mobiles, nagios & uk market

[mimo]

I had planned to start this with a rant about the "market" of mobile phone 
providers in the uk. A look at their websites is enough to understand it's a 
total rip-off -- they dont even try to give you the illusion they were 
competing with each other. Ever heard of syndication. Where is ofcom when you 
need them?  Well on their website they say "have a look at the providers' 
websites"...
Anyway, I'm trying to find the best solution for this problem. I have nagios 
set up to deliever alerts about server problems and I want to send them via 
text message to mobile phones. gnokii (http://www.gnokii.org/) takes care of 
talking to a mobile phone connected to the nagios central machine. All I'm 
looking for now is the cheapest mobile phone offer to deliever the messages 
(btw, using a commercial mail2sms gateway is not an option). I would think 
someone else on this list is doing something similiar. Any recommendations in 
terms of provider/tariff or even hardware (like a gsm card)?

Thanks,

mimo
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