Why do SMS web service prices vary so much? How does this service do a better job than Penny SMS who charge $0.01/message and provide return messages via email? https://www.pennysms.com/
Howto add SMS functionality to your web app
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Re: Howto add SMS functionality to your web app
#22Apart from a nicer website, how is this service any different from Mobivity, or half a dozen others? Maybe it's substantially cheaper but I can't seem to find any pricing information.
This is an API, not an application. In other words, if you want the end-user to get an SMS reply, you have to write code and instruct the API to send a message. Mobivity gives you simple marketing tools (voting, pre-defined messages to reply with, etc.).
Actually, no, Mobivity give you an API to send and receive SMS messages, and they do it in pretty much the same way this site does. I know this because I've used them to do exactly that. I know it does the the marketing as well but it has a fully fledged SMS api too.
Re: Howto add SMS functionality to your web app
#23Why do SMS web service prices vary so much? How does this service do a better job than Penny SMS who charge $0.01/message and provide return messages via email? https://www.pennysms.com/
SMS prices vary so much depending on the quality of service you want. At Poll Everywhere we pay a premium to SMS aggregators to have a short code (99503) and higher priority connections to cell networks. You could tap into the SMS network entirely via email, but the latency is too high for our needs.
The situation is awful, and paints a nasty picture of what the web would look like if it were not for net neutrality.
Re: Howto add SMS functionality to your web app
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who are you? Verizon? I think you mean 0.05$ not 0.05¢. There is a difference, and it's rather significant ($25/500 vs. $0.25/500).
What are you talking about? :D
You made the same factor of 100 mistake that Verizon seems to make a lot. As it turns out, most people care about a factor of 100 when it comes to the amount of money that they owe.
Re: Howto add SMS functionality to your web app
#25aren't there email addresses for every common vendor? yournumber@att.net or something like that?
It was the approach we took at my previous job.
Re: Howto add SMS functionality to your web app
#26http://www.esendex.co.uk/
These guys are great in the UK (and work for the US, too) for SMS. I have also written a Ruby wrapper for their API using ActiveResource:
http://tastyrails.com/post/190454192/sending-sms-with-esende...