[AusNOG] Wholesale SMS Services

[Nathan Brookfield]

Skeeve the biggest issue that has caught us out before is our staff having our network at home or being at the Office on Wireless and all of these applications use 'Data' of course, so if your network is experiencing an issue or for example if you're at home and there is an outage that causes the ATM interface on your modem to go down or your LNS to lose internet access, your still connected to the wireless AP and effectively blackholed and won't ever get the push message where-as SMS of course you will.

From: Skeeve Stevens [mailto:skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com]
Sent: Sunday, 13 October 2013 12:51 PM
To: Nathan Brookfield
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Wholesale SMS Services

Just adding a different perspective to the discussion.

Isn't SMS like Faxes?  With the amount of Apps that most people could use these days and could subscribe to messaging services.

Such as:

- Facebook Alerts (Easy to write an app for Facebook which people could subscribe to many kinds of alerts)
- WhatsApp (Not sure if there is an API, but it is linked to a phone)
- GroupMe - Similar to WhatsApp
- GoogleChat (Less useful)
- Even Twitter wish specific hashtags (#simtronic-nsw-dsl)
- Many others
or... writing your own App.

I think the costs of many of the above would essentially be operationally free.

The pain in the ass on SMS is that I still get SMS alerts for some carriers that I've not dealt with in 5 years.... and getting off these is somewhat of a nightmare.

I think we're mature enough that we should be able to move to the App world or piggyback on someone elses infrastructure.

If someones was keen, they could probably write a multi-platform app which you could (for a fee maybe) provide an API for carriers, and let them have multiple broadcast channels (Alerts, info, sales, etc) that users could subscribe to and send with extreme minimum cost.

Just a thought.


...Skeeve

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On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Nathan Brookfield <Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au<mailto:Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au>> wrote:
Hi All,

We are presently using ExeTEL for SMS Services for our customers and for integration into our management and customer systems using their API but the delay in there text messages being dispatched is painful and we are getting down alerts for services a minute after they have actually come back online and I will eventually break my iPhone if I have to keep waiting for tokens for two factor authentication.

I am looking for recommendations for SMS services that people are using which people know meet the type of requirements we have in this industry.  My main concerns are price per message, API functionality and reliability and prompt delivery of messages.

Reply on or off list would be fantastic.  I know of quite a few providers but someone local would be a positive as well.

Kindest Regards,
Nathan

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