Posted by keesee on February 10, 2009 at 2:07am
Hello,
I have a question about sms providers and costs associated with sending/receiving sms on a site. I've looked around and there's really no great resource for that that I can find. we are building a site where users can sign up messages for different types of data . I'd like to include sms, but I am seeing that its extremely expensive. I'm not sure if I missed something but it looks as if the least expensive option is about 3 cents a text. We anticipate sending 50000-100000 solicited sms's a month.
Is it going to cost me 18 - 36k per year?
How are you guys all solving this and have I missed something.
Thanks in advance for the feedback.
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J.
Comments
That's generally the cost of
That's generally the cost of sending SMS messages. One of my favourite statistics is that if an SMS body is 160chars then we are paying 1024000/160*0.03=$192 per MB.
Many gateway providers offer a tiered pricing model for high-volume users, but 3 cents sounds like a good price for 100,000 ougoing messages.
~ap