Simple HTTP post to send an SMS with an SMS API

http://www.nexmo.com/documentation/index.html#txt

by TeresaGF • 15 years ago

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geuis• 15 years ago

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.

TeresaGF• 15 years ago

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.

listic• 15 years ago

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.

v212• 15 years ago

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.

teljamou3• 15 years ago

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.

teljamou3• 15 years ago

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!

democracy• 15 years ago

What exactly shall I be looking at? Every SMS provider has REST/XML/JSON/whatever service...

ktsmith• 15 years ago

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.

mattvot• 15 years ago

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

erikig• 15 years ago

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 :^)

teljamou3• 15 years ago

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.

Simple HTTP post to send an SMS with an SMS API

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