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The business of adding a friendly web service on top of these SMS and IVR aggregators is already commoditized: Most aggregators will give you 10s of countries i
by jdangu 14y ago
The business of adding a friendly web service on top of these SMS and IVR aggregators is already commoditized: Most aggregators will give you 10s of countries in a single integration.
Then it's a question of volume to reach higher tiers / lower costs, and/or getting enough funding to sustain low margins at launch.
Twilio has both the volume and the funding.
Hopefully Plivo can differentiate through innovation.
- bevenky 14y agoJdangu, glad you mentioned that. We already do. Our focus is not just reselling minutes. We allow you to bring your own carriers if you already relationships, and we support SIP if that matters. Think Cloud hosting for telephony :)
- rdl 14y agoI ended up not using Twilio because they didn't support SIP (I mean, JFC, that's like building a mail product which doesn't support SMTP, just because SMTP is kind of crappy). Plivo supporting SIP out of the box means I'm a lot more interested, independent of price. Supporting wideband (G.722) would be my other requirement.
- bevenky 14y agowe already support wideband and g722 specifically :) welcome to the party