Regardless of the long-term logic in providing SMS-enabled VoIP DID's (I happen to think it's a good idea) I will say that I still haven't seen anyone offering it at a "low-volume" level, other than Google. All the vendors listed below are short-code aggregators, and I haven't seen any of them offering E.164 numbers that are both VoIP (SIP) and SMS enabled. The Syniverse offering is really interesting, but still the market is totally silent on someone offering resale of the combined service. Anyone? Anyone? Even the ultra-simple ability to get out of the short-code costs for bi-directional messaging would be HUGE for certain applications. Many apps don't need to have premium pricing, and many small companies can't afford the per-month short-code costs. Someone could step up and do a moderate advertising campaign to the VoIP community and do quite well, I suspect, reselling this service. JT On Dec 8, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Sorensen, Marty wrote:
Here are the SMS sub aggregators we looked at here:
VeriSign/Syniverse
Gumiyo
Gold Mobile
Yesmail Mobile
3CInteractive
Just Hit Send
Smart Reply
L7z
Advanced Mobile Solutions
Outsell
-----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org ] On Behalf Of Paul Timmins Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 11:48 AM To: David Hiers Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] SMS apps, providers, and peers
If you find someone other than syniverse let me know, their minimums were too high for me to really get involved with it since I don't have a specific way to make money off of it in mind...
-Paul
David Hiers wrote:
Hi, I'm looking into adding SMS services to L3 and VZN numbers, and want to run my own message center and sip/smtp/whatever gateways, and hook into the cloud with a provider like syniverse.
Tips, traps, tricks, and war stories welcome.
Thanks,
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