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Does anyone know what service WhatsApp used for SMS delivery for phone number verification? I wish I could get text messages into all parts of the world like th
by tlack 13y ago
Does anyone know what service WhatsApp used for SMS delivery for phone number verification? I wish I could get text messages into all parts of the world like they do.
- stickydink 13y agohttp://nexmo.com http://nexmo.com has pretty decent coverage
- andypants 13y agoNot really, there wasn't even a category for France and several first world countries did not have any available phone numbers to buy.
- sjtgraham 13y agoThey used multiple providers.
- stanleydrew 13y agoAt Bolt (https://bolt.co https://bolt.co) we use Twilio for this, and I'm pretty sure WhatsApp does too along with other providers. With Twilio we also fall back to delivering access tokens with a phone call when the SMS fails. (Full disclosure: I am a former Twilio employee.)
- username223 13y agoFuller disclosure: you're just another spammer.
- willvarfar 13y agoI work for a company called mblox; we put all our effort into reach.
- yonasb 13y agoAuthy (a two-factor auth service) uses a combination of Twilio and BulkSMS (they say that BulkSMS is particularly good for Latin America). Authy explains how they handle global SMS here: http://blog.leanstack.io/how-authy-built-a-fault-tolerant-two-factor-authentication-service/#bulksms http://blog.leanstack.io/how-authy-built-a-fault-tolerant-tw...
- twistedpair 13y agoSNS by AWS does it too.