[ILUG] SMS sending

[Niall O Broin]

On 19 May 2009, at 14:38, Ruairi Hickey wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 14:09:58 Niall O Broin wrote:
>> I recently came across an outfit called bulktext.ie who seem to offer
>> SMS sending at quite a reasonable rate (well, 3c or so to send up to
>> 160 bytes from A to B is a massive rip off, but in the text business,
>> it seems quite reasonable) but before I hand them some cash I thought
>> I'd ask if any of you have any experience with them.
>>
>> Niall
>
>
> We use clicktell at the rugby club, good api (php, etc) and cost is  
> pretty
> good also... It was probably too successful last year - about e3,000  
> at 2.5c a
> text.....


You must have been sending a LOT of texts to get that price - up to  
100K texts
with Clickatell costs 3.1c ea.  I did think they were somewhat dearer  
than they are
though - they're more expensive than bulktext, but there's very little  
in it.


Niall