"SMS Aggregator Ratings"
An SMS aggregator maintains direct connections to the major wireless carriers. They deliver their customers' text messages, which they aggregate, through their gateways. An aggregator allows you to go to one place to connect to all of the wireless carriers.
We Review The Best SMS Aggregators And Rate Them In Our Top Six
Choosing an SMS aggregator shouldn't be difficult! That's why we have put together this ranked list of the top six most popular SMS aggregators in the business. We've included a brief word from their own web sites, followed by our concise review on the firm.
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The Top Ten Mobile Marketing Firms |
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They Say: "Our mature carrier relationships and reputation for reliability, performance and service allow you to get to market as efficiently and competitively as possible. We take care of the technical and commercial complexities of message delivery and billing so you don't have to. The world of mobile content moves quickly - with MX Telecom you won't be left behind. " We Say: MX Telecom's selling point is that all of their technology is in-house and proprietary so if you need a customized solution they are ready to work with you. They offer a top notch level of service and quick response times to sales and service inquiries alike. |
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They Say: "mBlox's mobile messaging delivery services allow you to deliver data to and receive data from mobile handsets in more than 180 countries around the world. With mBlox, you can access 95 percent of the mobile subscribers around the world. That's over 2 billion people!" We Say: mBlox is an industry leader, with competitive pricing and leading edge technology. |
| 3 |
They Say: "Motricity's award-winning platform provides key technologies that help mobile operators deliver engaging experiences to mobile consumers. The platform delivers a total solution, servicing Portal, Storefront, Search, Managed Web, and Gateway. Companies around the world depend on Motricity to reinforce brand, drive revenues and ensure the safe and effective communication of licensed content." We Say: Motricity maintains excellent carrier connections. They require a minimum spend of $10,000 dollars per month. |
| 4 |
They Say: "We lead the industry with the most direct operator connections, enabling you to reach over 98 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers. We want to get your campaigns to market fast, which is why we support the latest mobile messaging technologies like MMS, PSMS and WAP—so that you can reach the widest audience possible." We Say: OpenMarket offers a good service, though nothing to write home about. We have no complaints, nor do we have any accolades. |
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They Say: "VeriSign Mobile Delivery Services assists carriers and content providers in the delivery of wireless messaging, distribution of mobile content, efficiently handling of billing, and offers user-friendly features that enhance service offerings and increase revenue opportunities." We Say: Verisign has their hand in a number of businesses, most notably domain registration. They are unresponsive to sales inquiries, as would be expected of a company that is not primarily focused on providing SMS aggregation services. |
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They Say: "Content Gateway is Air2Web’s core platform that delivers messages—SMS, MMS and WAP Push—through all major US and international carriers. Content Gateway maintains multiple direct binds to all major US carriers as well as connections to countries around the world. It handles billing, subscription management, binary delivery, and device detection." We Say: Air2Web's pricing -- in most cases -- is not competitive with similar services. The only way to bring per message pricing down to a competitive level requires extremely large bulk purchases, placing the service out of reach of most businesses. |
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Good job picking the top
Good job picking the top five. Thanks for posting them. I've never used any of these businesses but have heard they are good.
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There are a number of reasons to go through an aggregator. There are also companies like mine that sit between you and the aggregator which lowers the start-up costs and set-up time.
The first and most important reason is that with the carrier email gateways you have absolutely no way of knowing for sure that the message was delivered to the phone. If the phone is not on, you don't know for sure that it will be delivered when it goes active. Going over a short code allows you to get real-time delivery receipts of every message. You know if it has failed, or was rejected, or if it is still waiting for delivery.
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Good top 5
When you go to Neustar's website and check out their list of aggregators - http://www.usshortcodes.com/csc_aggregators.html - it seems like a daunting list. My company looked around and called almost every one of these so-called aggregators, and only got a response from 5-6 of them. The others were not really in the aggregation business and seemed to not want my business, either. For cost reasons, I ended up going with a shared short code solution, but the best customer service amongst the aggregators was split between Open Market and MX Telecom. (And btw, the Air2Web guy still stalks me to this day.)