[VoiceOps] SMS apps, providers, and peers

[John Todd]

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,
>>
>>
>> David
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