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joeyvanommen

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joeyvanommen··on Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO
This has since been fixed! :) Thanks for pointing this out to us
joeyvanommen··on MessageBird raises $60M Series A
Definitely an interesting question, here are a couple of ways to look at it:

- For companies doing a lot of messages or calls, pricing becomes a big issue in terms of scaling. Better pricing means they can do more to achieve even greater results, without too big of a restraint of financial overhead compared to competitors.

- For smaller companies doing smaller amounts of traffic, pricing isn't the biggest issue, all though it does become one when scaling.

An alternative benefit, which is applied to all types of companies, is the fact that MessageBird is better for security and quality: having more direct connections and working closely with telco's makes it possible to have complete end-to-end control over the traffic. This is crucial when choosing a partner to do 2FA with or other types of sensitive, security related messaging and calling, but also guarantees an overal better quality of service.

joeyvanommen··on MessageBird raises $60M Series A
MessageBird's SMS pricing in the US is $0.005/SMS, while Twilio's is $0.0075/SMS. So not sure where you get the 10x from.