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Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by Twirrim »

intrasight wrote: post #22

When I did programmatic SMS for a project ~10 years ago, I just used SMTP and the email equivalent of the SMS address. I haven't done similar projects since then, so I'm curious if there is some reason that approach would no longer work.

Many telcos throttle limit that route. I know of one company who used that method for sending texts from alarming to their oncalls. When they had a major incident and lots of pages went out, AT&T ended up blocking them from sending messages that way for a few hours, and they got warnings from the other major ones.

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by Animats »

More like "Amazon AWS introduces worldwide SMS spamming". They changed their service from opt-in to opt-out. Even after the recipient opts out, the spammer can override and opt them back in against their will.[1] There's even an API for doing that in bulk.

Amazon's service seems to be one-way. They don't seem to support SMS receive at all. They just blast out crap from their own shortcodes.

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sms_manage.html

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by shimon_e »

vxxzy wrote: post #33
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/

They can't beat QuestBlue. Their SMS is Free with the purchase of DID. Great API also. http://www.questblue.com/rates.html

Is this real sms or smtp sms?

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by biot »

jonknee wrote: post #37
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/

Considering that Twilio hosts with AWS, that will be a tough price war for Twilio to win.

The cost of CPU and bandwidth to process 160 byte messages is a rounding error compared to the fees from the mobile networks.

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by lowglow »

I wonder if AWS uses a startup/company's reliance/traffic on their service to investigate what services to offer people. Using metrics for client services/infrastructure running equates to demand and possible revenue insights, (eg Twilio) could be used to dictate what to build next.

Sneaky, and would make me reconsider building on the platform if that were the case.

[edit] Makes sense, since we've seen them use this same method for their products and Amazon Basics™ line of products.

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by jonknee »

biot wrote: post #56
jonknee wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering that Twilio hosts with AWS, that will be a tough price war for Twilio to win.

The cost of CPU and bandwidth to process 160 byte messages is a rounding error compared to the fees from the mobile networks.

It is, but AWS is all about making money on rounding errors. How long before Amazon starts letting to place and receive calls?

Re: Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging

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Post by takeda »

sleepyhead wrote: post #14
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.

So adding yet one more with competitive pricing won't do anything?

I thought same thing as the parent when I started reading blog entry. Especially the part where opt-in requirement was removed.

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