[asterisk-biz] Asterisk Server + Origination & Termination

[Benoy Jose]

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 <abalashov at evaristesys.com>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.
>
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