Premium SMS providers

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Just doing some research for premium SMS providers, curious to know if anyone here know any they can recommend or not?
 


I used to work in premium SMS, but in the UK and EU regions, so only have recommendations from my experience there.

mBlox - The World's Largest Mobile Transaction Network were always good at dirt-cheap MT, and their MO wasn't so bad.

The best I ever worked with, though, were Netsize - The global mobile commerce enabler: Mobile Messaging, Mobile Payment, Mobile Content Management and Mobile Internet portals.. They kicked serious arse, decent platform, lots of checks in places with the various operators, and always sent out status emails when (not if... when) particular operators were having issues doing their day-to-day business.
 
moomycow said:
I used to work in premium SMS, but in the UK and EU regions, so only have recommendations from my experience there.

mBlox - The World's Largest Mobile Transaction Network were always good at dirt-cheap MT, and their MO wasn't so bad.

The best I ever worked with, though, were Netsize - The global mobile commerce enabler: Mobile Messaging, Mobile Payment, Mobile Content Management and Mobile Internet portals.. They kicked serious arse, decent platform, lots of checks in places with the various operators, and always sent out status emails when (not if... when) particular operators were having issues doing their day-to-day business.
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Thanks! I'm UK based too, but looking for both UK and US. cheers, I'll check these guys out.
 
Glad to be of help. I remember working with the US carriers, and I hope the situation's improved. We used to have to code our applications for all kinds of crazy scenarios that individual US operators would come up with, like double-triple "are you really, really, REALLY sure you want to receive a premium text?"-type shit. Much fun ;)
 
after being in the industry for 5 years, i can strongly recommend reaching out to Mobile Messenger. They are the only real full service company in the industry and they recently acquired M Qube from Verisign. Hit up Erdolo Eromo (VP of Sales) he's a great guy and really helpful erdolo.eromo@mobilemessenger.com
 
mightymouse said:
after being in the industry for 5 years, i can strongly recommend reaching out to Mobile Messenger. They are the only real full service company in the industry and they recently acquired M Qube from Verisign. Hit up Erdolo Eromo (VP of Sales) he's a great guy and really helpful erdolo.eromo@mobilemessenger.com
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Go with whoever will take less comish and pay fast... some won't pay for 6 months.. and carriers take 40% (there abouts) so you share can get nibbled down quick.... I've used MM, there ok... used mBill, they suck... There's also Mobilefirst, never used them though...
 
It completely depends on what you are looking to do. Bango, MM, and straight billing aggregators like mBlox and Netsize all specialize in different areas of the premium SMS world (MM recently acquiring Verisign/mQube changes that a little I suppose)
 
TheMike - If we're simply looking to charge a user a small one-off amount to access some personalized information on the website who would be your recommended SMS service provider?
 
Thanks for the help guys.

The thing I'm looking into is rebill offers, similar to what's on networks already- nothing too groundbreaking.
 
I highly recommend anyone looking at getting into mobile to read up on all the new carrier penalties that exist.

Right now all carriers except AT&T have rules that will make it hard for you to collect your money long term unless you never stop promoting due to chargeback penalties.
 
Thanks Eduardo - got a good link for some info on this?

If running a completely above the board, non-rebill product, are we still going to have issues if we do volume due to excessive red tape?


EduardoM3 said:
I highly recommend anyone looking at getting into mobile to read up on all the new carrier penalties that exist.

Right now all carriers except AT&T have rules that will make it hard for you to collect your money long term unless you never stop promoting due to chargeback penalties.
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