[VoiceOps] A2P-aaS

[Peter Beckman]

As long as you are not including emails or URLs, use a Toll Free number.

For daily/weekly/monthly limits of 500/1000/2000 SMS, no registration is
required by most carriers.

While this may change in the future, for now that's the easiest way to do
A2P SMS that I've found.

Beckman


On Thu, 7 Sep 2023, Alex Balashov via VoiceOps wrote:

> I have a purely internal portal application that is used to send SMS
> notifications about customer monitoring incidents and emergencies
> about... twice a month. Maybe 5-10 messages per month total, across
> several associates combined. It's all done through Twilio's SMS API.
>
> There is not enough Prozac, pot, liquor, etc. in the world that's going
> to make me log into Twilio's portal and do their campaign enrollment. For
> these negligible volumes of purely internal notification traffic, a pure
> cost centre, not customer-facing anything, etc., I just don't care, and
> you won't make me care.
>
> However, these notifications are fairly essential because they allow me
> to pierce the iOS "Do Not Disturb" wall on our phones and get them even
> at 3 AM. There's no decent over-the-top alternative I can see; I have to
> enable notifications for an over-the-top messaging application as a
> whole, the last thing I want to do.
>
> So, there's a business opportunity here for an SMS provider who 1) offers
> a relatively straightforward REST API to send SMS and 2) will take care
> of the A2P campaign garbage aspect.
>
> I'd love if someone took that up.
>
> -- Alex
>
> -- 
> Alex Balashov
> Principal Consultant
> Evariste Systems LLC
> Web: https://evaristesys.com
> Tel: +1-706-510-6800
>
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