Burns, John D wrote: > I heard some stuff when Macromedia first came out with the gateways for > CFMX about the costs of SMS Gateways. Does anyone have round about > figures for that? Pricing for the gateway account and then prices per > message? I thought that it was pretty expensive but wanted to know if > it's changed or if anyone knows more details. I don't need exact > numbers, just an idea. Thanks!
it depends a great deal on where you are, where you want to send (the "delivery" cost varies), whether your gateway connects to an aggregator or direct to a carrier, how much risk you want to undertake (seen some "too-good-to-be-true" offers), etc. but broadly speaking, maybe 5000 SMS outbound messages via SMPP shouldn't cost more than $300 US, with inbound ones usually costing 1/3 to 1/2 that. usually the more you send, the cheaper the cost per SMS will be. however there's more to it than simple pricing. you'll need to asses the service providers "support" for SMPP specs (which version, exactly what PDUs they do support, etc.) and perhaps their newbie tolerance ;-) and of course, you need the enterprise edition of cf7. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:231344 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
