Re:Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T
by druiid on Thursday January 05, 2012 @03:57PM
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Question: Who is the back-end carrier providing the VoIP services necessary to make this work? Bandwidth.com or similar? If so, hate to break it to you guys, but the only thing that Twilio is providing is a wonderful API which sits on top of a VoIP network that sits on top of AT&T and Verizon (GTE). How exactly are they going to 'kill' AT&T now?
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As an aside... I do know of what I speak. I have implemented several thousand numbers via Bandwidth.com and similar services, which as a further aside is who Google uses for many of their services for Google Voice...
Re:Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T
by toomuchtodo on Friday January 06, 2012 @12:18AM
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You just need ILECs or CLECs willing to terminate SIP connections onto an SS7 switch; doing so is trivial for an organization that is getting into a Twilio-like business, but non-trivial for a typical web developer doing it just for a couple hundred of minutes or sms messages a month.