SMS Gateways

2006-02-03 Thread Burns, John D
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!
 
John Burns
Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer
Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer
 
 


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Re: SMS Gateways

2006-02-03 Thread Paul Hastings
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.

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