Thanks Alex for educating me. I am a web developer and use Tropo/Twilio for applications. The high cost of SMS is prohibiting any credible development using voip. I still use mobile networks to do them.
I would love to see the same prices for SMS as they are for calls. Benoy On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Alex Balashov <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/12/2010 09:27 PM, Benoy Jose wrote: > > > www.twilio.com <http://www.twilio.com> , www.tropo.com > > <http://www.tropo.com> do pretty much the same thing. > > Not exactly; these cloud providers cannot be lumped into the same > category. They may seem that way to someone not familiar with the > industry, but the nuances are rather important. > > Twilio & such expose very high-level APIs that allow a certain degree > of outside application plumbing. This serves a very particular > market: developers who are not telecom and telephony experts, and > just want to leverage their existing core competencies to add > telephony components to their applications and services. For example, > using a service like Ifbyphone, a web developer can enhance an online > shopping cart to place a call to a customer-provided telephone > provider upon order submission and ask them to enter a PIN via TTS to > confirm that it is a real person, through a REST type API. They can > do all this without having to learn and deploy Asterisk, procure SIP > trunks or TDM circuits, and generally venture outside of their core > business domain. > > Cloudvox does that too, but Cloudvox offers a much broader array of > developer-friendly interfaces, including native AGI and AMI. The > original poster asked about moving his existing Asterisk setup "into > the cloud," presumably without a loss of functionality or feature > depth. Troy's response about Cloudvox was much more appropriate to > the original poster's question than Twilio or Tropo. > > > Both of them seem to be cheaper than cloudvox. What I dont understand > > is the ridiculous price for SMS on all three platforms 2-3c a message. > > Even the monster cell phone networks like AT & T and verizon are cheaper. > > Originating SMSs on a large scale via IP is a very expensive business > that subjects you to a small, secretive oligopoly/mafia of providers. > Becoming an SMSC yourself just has a high cost basis, too, that is a > large fixed cost relative to the volumes of cell carriers. It's not > arbitrary pricing; I think these guys would love to drop it. > > -- > Alex Balashov - Principal > Evariste Systems LLC > 1170 Peachtree Street > 12th Floor, Suite 1200 > Atlanta, GA 30309 > Tel: +1-678-954-0670 > Fax: +1-404-961-1892 > Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >
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