Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by rebelde » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:02 PM UTC

arrty88 wrote: post #3

I wonder how this will affect newly IPOed twilio

I think we should now expect that Amazon will copy any successful service like this, even if it doesn't materially help its bottom line.

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by namikaze » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:06 PM UTC

Great news! Amazon will get into any kind of service that is part of an infrastructure. There are a one-stop shop of building blocks required to build a web service. Their inventory is only going to get diverse and bigger.

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by hathym » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:13 PM UTC

it's curious that they announced the service after twilio IPO

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by sleepyhead » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:22 PM UTC

radarsat1 wrote: post #6

Does this mean I'm about to get a lot more spam directly to my phone?

No, there are already plenty of other services to be used to send SMS to your phone.

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by garhirunrat » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:25 PM UTC

radarsat1 wrote: post #6

Does this mean I'm about to get a lot more spam directly to my phone?

I hope Apple support SMS filtering. Blocking numbers is not enough for me. Maybe we can do it like Gmail spam filter for SMS?

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by sleepyhead » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:26 PM UTC

Just compared their pricing to Nexmo here in Norway. Almost double the price. AWS: $0.09109. Nexmo: $0.0530.

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by rco8786 » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:36 PM UTC

Interesting timing considering Twilio's IPO

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by yarapavan » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:37 PM UTC

India pricing is atleast twice the price of any decent SMS provider in the country at 0.0045 USD per transactional SMS.

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by mk89 » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:38 PM UTC

..but why? How is this relevant to their business? I mean, I do understand that AWS and Amazon (the e-commerce) don't have anything in common, but why to focus on such a product that already exists (and that's even better)?

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by sologoub » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 2:40 PM UTC

jakozaur wrote: post #7

Marginally cheaper than Twilio for USA: $0.00645 vs. $0.0075 Much more expensive in Europe (e.g. major networks in Poland Twilio $0.03467, AWS $0.03897 - 0.07711) https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing http://aws.amazon.com/sns/sms-pricing/

Plivo seems to be substantially cheaper for US long codes at $0.0035: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/#!sms.

Poland is also cheaper at $0.022.

EDIT: Interestingly, Twilio seems to be cheaper on the phone number pricing slightly in Poland and substantially in Germany and France.