AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging

Re:AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging by sgarg on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:13PM (#15343811)

The 200+ countries is slightly misleading, especially when the title mentions two-way messaging. I've done a lot of research into messaging/SMS providers like Twilio, Nexmo, Plivo, etc for supporting two-way messaging in developing countries. Most providers currently only support two-way messaging in similar subset of countries in North America and Europe. Since it is powered by Twilio, I don't think it adds any new countries and definitely not 200.

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223183068-Twili...

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Re:AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging by ranman on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:43PM (#15343957)

Pinpoint works with multiple partners and carriers. You can get the list of countries here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/userguide/channel...

Disclaimer: I wrote the post and work for AWS

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Re:AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging by sgarg on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:07PM (#15344335)

Thanks for the reply. Are you saying that all of these countries support two-way messaging? It's my impression after signing up and looking at pricing pages that many of these countries only support outbound messaging.

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Re:AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging by ranman on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @07:22PM (#15353262)

You're totally right. We'll update the list of countries that support 2-way messaging in the docs in the next few days. It's ~50 or so.

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Re:AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging by peteretep on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @04:48AM (#15345965)

Hey, one thing I spent a bit of time trying to find and couldn't was if the numbers would be designated cell phone numbers?

For example, in Thailand all cellphone numbers start with 08/09, in the UK with 07. There are some funny local laws about that. I have quite a few usecases in mind which require the provision of a cell phone number.

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Re:AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging by Nexxxeh on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @07:18AM (#15346633)

One can send SMS to (at least some) landlines in the UK.

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Re:AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging by aviv on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:42PM (#15344499)

When is SIP trunking and Hosted Business PBX getting added to AWS?

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