Simple HTTP post to send an SMS with an SMS API(nexmo.com)
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Simple HTTP post to send an SMS with an SMS API
http://www.nexmo.com/documentation/index.html#txt
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What exactly shall I be looking at? Every SMS provider has REST/XML/JSON/whatever service...
The submitter account looks a lot like spam to me. No comments, short existence on the site, a few random submissions and everything else about nexmo. Which is likely why linking to one specific portion of the API doesn't make a lot of sense. There are several submitted articles like that linking into a subset of the API, probably to get around the dupe link checker.
Is this considered cheap? (the lowest I could find is 0.0110 EUR per outbound SMS) I never bought SMS in bulk, but a certain service that charged for informational SMS sent out to clients charged me more than 2x cheaper. Their business was not selling SMS and I never saw the rates though.
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!
And when I search for UK connections, that cheap quoted price is via Manx Telecom, not direct-to-carrier (which is, as they say, more reliable). I'd assume their inbound VMNs are, too (which means some networks would get hit with International rates).
There's other complications that they don't seem to handle that well (Text encoding! Bulk sending!). But they may have some luck - their website is easy on the eye, their APIs look sane, and the pricing isn't so bad.
There's other complications that they don't seem to handle that well (Text encoding! Bulk sending!). But they may have some luck - their website is easy on the eye, their APIs look sane, and the pricing isn't so bad.
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.
I'm not suggesting that you offer management tools, but an addition to your API that allows for specifying multiple recipients for a single message would probably be quite popular. It would also reduce your server load, as you would receive far fewer requests. Of course, this complicates sending back the status of the message, and with large volumes you probably have carrier-side rate limiting, so it would probably be asynchronous. Many sighs. But probably worth building at some point, for those that don't want to use SMPP.
As far as text encoding - it's a hideous world, and I'm glad to forget the details. But you should probably give a link on your documentation to the GSM03.38 character set, and specify what happens if you include something that isn't on it, for a start. And maybe provide optional support for non-GSM03.38 encodings.
As far as text encoding - it's a hideous world, and I'm glad to forget the details. But you should probably give a link on your documentation to the GSM03.38 character set, and specify what happens if you include something that isn't on it, for a start. And maybe provide optional support for non-GSM03.38 encodings.
Lots of countries other than the US supported. I like the idea of the service, but the US needs to be supported as a base-line.
Thanks! We are working on US reach and we hope to have it ready at the end of June or beginning or July. We will post updates in Twitter @Nexmo and of course in our website.
I'm so impressed with this. Took 1 minuite from signup (FREE CREDIT) to receiving a SMS to my phone from a PHP script on my laptop. Cool
Anyone know an MMS provider in the US with a similar API (nice, clean and cheap) that works in 2 directions - i.e Mobile Originated (MO) & Mobile Terminated (MT)?
(I might as well ask this here :^)
(I might as well ask this here :^)
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.