[AusNOG] Wholesale SMS Services

[David Bomba]

We deployed Burst SMS is under an hour.

Fairly good rates when buying in bulk, and the API is dead simple to use.


On 13 October 2013 13:26, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:

> We use push for non urgent notifications and for urgent and escalated
> notifications. An asterisk agi is used to dial the mobile with a voice call
> from a PSTN line with voice announcement. SMS is to easily ignored /
> missed.  99% of the time a push is all thats needed.  We have some nifty
> voice menus where you cb . Even get more information or answer the fault
> with dtmf menu
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> On 13 Oct 2013, at 12:55, Nathan Brookfield <
> Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:
>
>  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.  ****
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> *From:* Skeeve Stevens [mailto:skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com<skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>]
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> *Sent:* Sunday, 13 October 2013 12:51 PM
> *To:* Nathan Brookfield
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Wholesale SMS Services****
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> Just adding a different perspective to the discussion.****
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> Isn't SMS like Faxes?  With the amount of Apps that most people could use
> these days and could subscribe to messaging services.****
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> Such as:****
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> - Facebook Alerts (Easy to write an app for Facebook which people could
> subscribe to many kinds of alerts)****
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> - WhatsApp (Not sure if there is an API, but it is linked to a phone)****
>
> - GroupMe - Similar to WhatsApp****
>
> - GoogleChat (Less useful)****
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> - Even Twitter wish specific hashtags (#simtronic-nsw-dsl)****
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> - Many others****
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> or... writing your own App.****
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> I think the costs of many of the above would essentially be operationally
> free.****
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> 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.****
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> I think we're mature enough that we should be able to move to the App
> world or piggyback on someone elses infrastructure.****
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> 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.****
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> Just a thought.****
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> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Nathan Brookfield <
> 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.****
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>  ****
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> 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.****
>
>  ****
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> Reply on or off list would be fantastic.  I know of quite a few providers
> but someone local would be a positive as well.****
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>  ****
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> Kindest Regards,****
>
> Nathan ****
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