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Is this considered cheap? (the lowest I could find is 0.0110 EUR per outbound SMS) I never bought SMS in bulk, but a certain service that charged for informatio

by listic 15y ago

Is this considered cheap? (the lowest I could find is 0.0110 EUR per outbound SMS) I never bought SMS in bulk, but a certain service that charged for informational SMS sent out to clients charged me more than 2x cheaper. Their business was not selling SMS and I never saw the rates though.

v21 15y ago
And when I search for UK connections, that cheap quoted price is via Manx Telecom, not direct-to-carrier (which is, as they say, more reliable). I'd assume their inbound VMNs are, too (which means some networks would get hit with International rates). There's other complications that they don't seem to handle that well (Text encoding! Bulk sending!). But they may have some luck - their website is easy on the eye, their APIs look sane, and the pricing isn't so bad.
- teljamou 15y ago
  thanks for feedback! very well appreciated. Can you elaborate how we can improve on text encoding handling? For bulk sending, we consider ourselves a pure API and don't want to offer software tools to send bulk campaigns. However, our developer community is active building tools and mashups on top of our API for things like campaign management tools.
  - v21 15y ago
    I'm not suggesting that you offer management tools, but an addition to your API that allows for specifying multiple recipients for a single message would probably be quite popular. It would also reduce your server load, as you would receive far fewer requests. Of course, this complicates sending back the status of the message, and with large volumes you probably have carrier-side rate limiting, so it would probably be asynchronous. Many sighs. But probably worth building at some point, for those that don't want to use SMPP. As far as text encoding - it's a hideous world, and I'm glad to forget the details. But you should probably give a link on your documentation to the GSM03.38 character set, and specify what happens if you include something that isn't on it, for a start. And maybe provide optional support for non-GSM03.38 encodings.
teljamou 15y ago
Hey there, thanks for comments. Prices of SMS termination outside the US are more expensive than in the US or using US carriers to terminate internationally, which usually don't provide delivery receipts and has poor levels of deliverability in general.(Nexmo is launching soon the US offer so that you can compare). The company is a wholesaler and pricing is more competitive than most incumbent aggregators such as mBlox and Clickatell. We can do that thanks to our direct to carrier model cutting the middle man. It starts at 0.006 (say in Nigeria) and most networks, over 500 are priced at 0.011 EUR. I recommend you to compare with the other incumbents. Let me us know your feedback!

by listic 15y ago

v21 15y ago

And when I search for UK connections, that cheap quoted price is via Manx Telecom, not direct-to-carrier (which is, as they say, more reliable). I'd assume their inbound VMNs are, too (which means some networks would get hit with International rates). There's other complications that they don't seem to handle that well (Text encoding! Bulk sending!). But they may have some luck - their website is easy on the eye, their APIs look sane, and the pricing isn't so bad.

teljamou 15y ago
thanks for feedback! very well appreciated. Can you elaborate how we can improve on text encoding handling? For bulk sending, we consider ourselves a pure API and don't want to offer software tools to send bulk campaigns. However, our developer community is active building tools and mashups on top of our API for things like campaign management tools.
- v21 15y ago
  I'm not suggesting that you offer management tools, but an addition to your API that allows for specifying multiple recipients for a single message would probably be quite popular. It would also reduce your server load, as you would receive far fewer requests. Of course, this complicates sending back the status of the message, and with large volumes you probably have carrier-side rate limiting, so it would probably be asynchronous. Many sighs. But probably worth building at some point, for those that don't want to use SMPP. As far as text encoding - it's a hideous world, and I'm glad to forget the details. But you should probably give a link on your documentation to the GSM03.38 character set, and specify what happens if you include something that isn't on it, for a start. And maybe provide optional support for non-GSM03.38 encodings.

teljamou 15y ago

Hey there, thanks for comments. Prices of SMS termination outside the US are more expensive than in the US or using US carriers to terminate internationally, which usually don't provide delivery receipts and has poor levels of deliverability in general.(Nexmo is launching soon the US offer so that you can compare). The company is a wholesaler and pricing is more competitive than most incumbent aggregators such as mBlox and Clickatell. We can do that thanks to our direct to carrier model cutting the middle man. It starts at 0.006 (say in Nigeria) and most networks, over 500 are priced at 0.011 EUR. I recommend you to compare with the other incumbents. Let me us know your feedback!