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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:07 pm
by mobtex
MX Telecom are fantastic.

Text Anywhere are fast but do not support WAP Push messaging so they're limiteds to what you can do with them. They do however rent long numbers so you can get a reply and have that HTTP'd over to your site / server / app.

SMS in the UK is light years ahead of the US IMHO.

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:53 pm
by Roja
mobtex wrote:SMS in the UK is light years ahead of the US IMHO.
In which sense? The rest of your post implies the technology side (not the adoption rate).

I've worked for a major wireless carrier in the US, and I'm fairly well informed. I'd say its almost 100% the opposite of your statement. The US carriers have tremendous technological advantages over the UK's implementations.

However, if you meant number of people using it, you bet. Americans drive far more often - which means their travel time is handsfree time - not txting time.

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:05 am
by mobtex
no i mean from the perspective of a service / content provider. in the uk it's easy to get setup, plus we can reverse bill to all networks, tried getting psms in the states, all the providers we looked at could only offer billing on at&t cingular and t-mobile. nothing on dobson, sprint pcs, etc etc

some us networks block non-us sms traffic or allow shortcode sent traffic only.
verizon and the walled garden

there's a few things that just make it hard to do business over there when it's easy to get sorted here.