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Re: Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

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Post by mediaserf »

brightsize wrote: post #13
gremlinsinc wrote: post #5

Would be nice if it included pricing per # and per SMS msg sent, etc...and any other fees.

Here are the pricing pages for two services that I looked into as possible alternatives to Twilio: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/ https://www.nexmo.com/products/sms/

I use both of these services and Flowroute https://www.flowroute.com/pricing/pricing-sms/- Flowroute's pricing is really competitive.

Nexmo has great analytics that show failures. Plivo will just fail and not log it and not return a failure, so I'm migrating away from them.

Re: Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

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Post by wolfgke »

kumarski wrote: post #18
pbreit wrote: post #11

Since they're all pretty much the same, the main factor appears to be missing: price.

they don't all disclose price publicly and I'd probably get a takedown notice if I posted prices, b/c they can always change and that's misleading the consumers.

Then add some date/time so that you clearly only claim that at that date/time this was the price.

Re: Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

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Post by marcelcor »

Hey dev from MessageBird here. We are "mollie-sms" on the list.

We changed our name long ago and along with the name many other things: We support SMPP, SMPP over TLS, http apis that support TLS (with libs in many languages https://github.com/messagebird), SS7, easy delivery over all over the world (except North Korea).

And many more exciting stuff coming up.

Re: Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

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Post by steveklabnik »

benmmurphy wrote: post #34

We have an API for sending bulk SMS and libraries written in PHP, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Go and Rust. You can try out the API and send some test messages to your phone straight from your browser at: https://zensend.io/#demo . We have the most experience in the UK market because this is where we do most of our premium sms/direct billing business under another company ( http://www.fonix.com/ ) but we support b…

Oh neat! I hadn't seen this before. Any chance you all would like to get on http://rust-lang.org/friends.html ? :)

Re: Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

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Post by kumarski »

vonklaus wrote: post #28
kumarski wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they don't all disclose price publicly and I'd probably get a takedown notice if I posted prices, b/c they can always change and that's misleading the consumers.

are you obligated to be accurate? I appreciate the list (thank you, or thank the curator) but I would imagine that if you are independent you have no obligation to be correct?

Not sure.

Re: Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

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Post by kumarski »

Jommi wrote: post #39
kumarski wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

correct. I had my outsourcer do it. not sure if they scraped it or used LinkKlipper.

Really fascinated of this kind of semi--outsourced work procedure. Outsource the manual data entry to somewhere else for a minimum cost and then focus on your core strengths alone.

I outsource everything I suck at.

So that tends to be a lot of stuff.

Re: Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

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Post by mngutterman »

aviv wrote: post #27
mngutterman wrote: post #26

I'm currently using Nexmo for a side project, but am looking to move. I recently had to buy some more numbers and realized Nexmo had almost none available. Anyone have this issue with other providers?

Nexmo's inventory especially for North America numbers has been an issue for a while. Are you using them for Voice, SMS, or both?

Just SMS as of now. I'm looking into moving over to something with shortcodes now.

Re: Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

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Post by sarahmblox »

Hi,

I wanted to add Mblox to this list, if possible. We provide HTTP, Rest and SMPP connections, along with web based applications. We have over 100 direct operator connections, as well as global coverage to over 978 networks.

We offer MMS support within the US as well as approved US & Carrier SMS connections. I will be more than happy to speak to anyone regarding their requirements - please get in touch, Sarah.Cruttenden@mblox.com

Look forward to hearing from you,

Sarah https://www.mblox.com/

Re: Telephony, SMS, and MMS APIs

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Post by sarahmblox »

Hi,

I wanted to add Mblox to this list, if possible. We provide HTTP, Rest and SMPP connections, along with web based applications. We have over 100 direct operator connections, as well as global coverage to over 978 networks.

We offer MMS support within the US as well as approved US & Carrier SMS connections. I will be more than happy to speak to anyone regarding their requirements - please get in touch, Sarah.Cruttenden@mblox.com

Look forward to hearing from you,

Sarah https://www.mblox.com/

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