robertvis

You mean regulation in order to prevent SPAM? Surely thats a good thing right? Email me and Ill get you the best experience albeit you need to be a legit company. robert@

lol

Happy to chat ;)

This sounds like a terrible experience. Can you email me so we can look into it?

Its an honest mistake and we’ll correct it.

Lets do it - robert@

We’ll correct the mistake!

We actually do. Difference is we are direct with the carriers and dont pay middle man so we can make inbound free in most countries (which is also how global telecom works from an interoperability standpoint) We also have numering access across local, mobile , tf in over 150 countries.

Mostly a US issue. Api’s on messaging have been in europe and asia since 2002. The main value prop is easy api’s and global connectivity for our SMS API’s as more and more businesses go global. Also we didnt start any price war. Our pricing is a bit cheaper than Twilio 0.0075 T vs 0.005 MB. That said - welcome any messaging users to email me and we can talk about the price war :-)

Hi - fwiw our main focus is outside the US - our biggest teams are in apac. Email me we’ll help you out. robert@

Lol we never did that ;-) As in the Taco thing at Signal. Good idea though

lol - thanks :)

Yes - we run our own network of real sims for quality control that we only use for ourselves.

When you connect directly to a carrier you get so called PTT codes back (industry standard). Not all carriers do this the same way but we standardize this and return them like shown at the link below. When your provider uses a lot of in-between providers its harder to return errors correctly. https://developers.messagebird.com/docs/smserrorcodes

Yes, we run our own SMSC but in terms of functionality like routing and quality control we go way beyond what a normal carrier would be able to. CLEC is a US specific term and not needed to sign direct agreements with carriers. We operate our own SS7 stack, global titles and mobile network codes. This way we can interconnect with carriers as a carrier. Deploying an on-premise SMSC or E1's would be an old-school way of doing this. Most carriers use either Sigtran or connectivity through their SCCP provider.

drop me an email robert@ - depending on exact needs can prob help you.

see my comment above.

We have secured direct relationships with 220 carriers globally essentially skipping the aggregators. That way in terms of support in almost all cases we can at least explain what happened with the message end to end.

Thanks! I'm not persé against burning money for growth, it is just different in Europe than here. We are also Dutch, and you know the saying "going dutch" so maybe a bit cheap haha

We will look into this asap!

Thanks !

I don't really like bashing others on why we are better than them. We provide high-quality service on top of being generally cheaper. We are all telco/ tech people so have vast knowledge how this space works and should work. Please email me to try us out, if you are not happy I'll refund you! robert@messagebird.com

We'd love to help you out with this especially because we are newer to the US - really looking for customer experiences- email me please and we can setup a demo account: robert@messagebird.com

Happy to hear you are happy. We are a very lean company and most of our expansion will be in scaling technology - not people or products. However, if you ever feel the need to leave, can we agree you write me an e-mail first? robert@messagebird.com

We are cheaper than Twilio in almost all countries including US. But price is not everything.

In terms of our strenghts (not sure how this relates to Twilio):

We have a direct-to-carrier strategy, most focussed on Europe & Asia. This ensures reliable and fast delivery. If you are a high volume text message customer we have global experience working for some of the most needy and security sensitive companies including banks & governments.

Hi HN community, my name is Robert and I'm the founder of MessageBird. MessageBird is an API for sending Text, Voice & Chat messages to your customers globally.

Today we launched our API to connect to different chat platforms: FB Messenger, WeChat, Line and Telegram using one single API. You can play around with it in our dashboard and have some chats with yourself before integrating the API.

We would love feedback from the community on our Chat API and/or Text & Voice API's. Let me know if you have any questions. https://www.messagebird.com/en-us/chat-api

Thx :) Climate is different in Europe, you need profitability to survive.