At one point when I was building a SAAS sms app, I emailed 579 SMS providers to find quotes on better pricing.
https://medium.com/@datarade/twilio-ipo-thoughts-997c36c9440...
One thing that I find incredibly surprising is that they often white-label and sell on top of other providers like infobip/nexmo. They don't have tier 1 connections and as well they don't scale very well internationally.
At one point when I was building a SAAS sms app, I emailed 579 SMS providers to find quotes on better pricing.
https://medium.com/@datarade/twilio-ipo-thoughts-997c36c9440...
One thing that I find incredibly surprising is that they often white-label and sell on top of other providers like infobip/nexmo. They don't have tier 1 connections and as well they don't scale very well internationally.