Sorry to hear that. I am part of Nexmo helpdesk and we are here to help you address any issue you are seeing. Can you share with us more info on the issues? message IDs? phone numbers? account? best is that you drop us a ticket at nexmo.zendesk.com and we would love to assist!
Amazon SNS now supports SMS in the USA. But what about the rest of the world? USA is around 5% of the world mobile market.
We are happy to (re) announce that with Amazon SNS and Nexmo you can reach the remaining 95% without much change of your existing code!
Using the Nexmo Amazon SDK, you can easily subscribe your mobile users to a given topic and they will be automatically notified via SMS when you will be publishing messages. Here is a detailed how-to: http://www.nexmo.com/documentation/libs/index.html#sns
What is also very cool is that you would benefit from Nexmo wholesale pricing and 1-hop model that cuts out the middle man, improves SMS deliverability and reduce latency.
It is only in the US, 5% of the mobile world market. With the Nexmo Amazon SNS lib you can reach the rest of the world without much change of your code. Also to receive! of course with a direct to carrier model that reduce cost and improve deliverability. Here is more info to get started: http://nexmo.zendesk.com/entries/20636661-get-international-...
It is only in the US, 5% of the mobile world market. With the Nexmo Amazon SNS lib you can reach the rest of the world without much change of your code. of course with a direct to carrier model that reduce cost and improve deliverability. Here is more info to get started: http://nexmo.zendesk.com/entries/20636661-get-international-...
- Forex changes
- Important emails
- Important tweets (twitter SMS does not work in many countries)
- Important RSS feeds
- Google News alerts on certain keywords
- Security alerts e.g. when someone hacks into some of my accounts
- Stocks alerts
- Important reminders from iCal, configurable not all like google cal
Would be cool to have a basic SMS altert app that can connect to many web services.
You can build a demo with Nexmo.com, the wholesale SMS API with gobal reach and direct to carrier model. (disclaimer: I work for Nexmo)
Hey there, I heard mBlox has an MMS gateway in the US, but not sure about the easy of access. PM me if needed so that I introduce you. I used to work there.
thanks for feedback! very well appreciated. Can you elaborate how we can improve on text encoding handling?
For bulk sending, we consider ourselves a pure API and don't want to offer software tools to send bulk campaigns. However, our developer community is active building tools and mashups on top of our API for things like campaign management tools.
Hey there, thanks for comments. Prices of SMS termination outside the US are more expensive than in the US or using US carriers to terminate internationally, which usually don't provide delivery receipts and has poor levels of deliverability in general.(Nexmo is launching soon the US offer so that you can compare). The company is a wholesaler and pricing is more competitive than most incumbent aggregators such as mBlox and Clickatell. We can do that thanks to our direct to carrier model cutting the middle man. It starts at 0.006 (say in Nigeria) and most networks, over 500 are priced at 0.011 EUR. I recommend you to compare with the other incumbents. Let me us know your feedback!
I have founded Nexmo.com, Low Cost SMS API (in private beta), early this year after spending 7 years in the Wholesale SMS industry. Delivering awesome SMS service on a global scale is tricky – but it should not be! We just finalised building our back-end SMS network.
Here are some challenges the industry faces:
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-Many intermediaries to reach end-users:
Between an App and an end-user you can get up to 4 or 5 intermediaries operating their own infrastructure. Adding intermediaries not only increases cost but also exponentially reduces quality – QOS is measured in terms of availability, delivery ratios, speed, features supported, etc…
Ask your provider about their sourcing strategy? Who do they buy from? Do they have a strict policy in terms of suppliers’ selection? Can they share delivery ratios?
-SLA does not really matter:
What if the providers of your provider do not guarantee any SLA?
A provider can potentially guarantee an SLA on its own infrastructure but can’t control what happens afterwards.
-Non transparent fees:
Customers get charged on SMS sent to networks that are not or poorly covered but listed as LIVE in the provider’s reach list – even when you sign a written agreement.
-Tricky to reach all Networks:
Some networks in the world are tricky to reach and sometimes the only reliable way to deliver SMS is to connect directly. Other are installing SMS filters to cut certain type of traffic (e.g. Spam). For instance, if your provider mentions networks such as Comcell Colombia or IAM in Morocco, you’d rather check again because these networks are impossible to reach with full feature support/reliable service without direct connections. Currently there are at least 26 networks that are tricky to reach and 22 that are filtering.
Another rule of thumb is to check whether in Europe their prices are above $0.055, since European Wireless Carriers (also applicable to other regions/countries) require a termination cost for reliable SMS routes. If below that price, it could mean that your provider (or the provider of your provider!) is using unsolicited routes that are not reliable/has limited life time.
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Delivering hassle free (and Low Cost!) global SMS termination is not obvious but we are working on it :)
Tony Jamous
twitter: @nexmo
e-mail: tony.jamous [@] nexmo.com