Voxeo undercharging Twilio 50%, what's their profit margin on SMS?

Posted by stephenhuey on Monday May 16, 2011 @01:14PM
from the self-post dept.

Late on Friday night I browsed over to smsified.com since I'd been keeping an eye on its minimal "1 cent per SMS coming soon" webpage. That night I was surprised to see the service had quietly launched and Tropo's pricing had also already dropped since Voxeo owns both of them. As of Monday, Twilio hasn't followed their lead (which I've been waiting for since my app uses Twilio). I've read about SMS costing the carriers almost nothing, but I'm wondering what the actual profit margins are. How low can they go?

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Re:Voxeo undercharging Twilio 50%, what's their profit margi... by jmadnick on Monday May 23, 2011 @09:56AM (#2575908)

No one knows where pricing will settle. Long codes, or long numbers, is a relatively new industry. I created www.longnumbers.com as information portal for this space. Still work in progress.

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Re:Voxeo undercharging Twilio 50%, what's their profit margi... by vlbeta on Monday May 16, 2011 @01:39PM (#2553383)

Another: http://textmessageapi.com

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Re:Voxeo undercharging Twilio 50%, what's their profit margi... by stephenhuey on Monday May 16, 2011 @01:43PM (#2553403)

They're falling from the sky! Just noticed your submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2553379

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