A colleague of mine asked me today if I could recommend a company that provides premium rate shortcode services worldwide, especially with a focus in Africa, Asia and particularly China.
WPR were the first who came to mind. I also suggested mblox.com
No one can.
Simple as.
Aye! But who’s got some good coverage?
for asia i’d start with i-pop. talk to colin
http://www.i-pop.net/connectivity.htm
Realistically the person asking the question, ‘who can provide global psms’ needs to be educated about why this is a pretty daft question!
Try txtNation. Worked for me. Great reputation etc etc. Give them a try. I’ve pasted some info they sent me below…
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txtNation’s mBILL Platform (www.m-bill.net) provides unrivalled connectivity to a wealth of countries through one online API.
Premium Billed Countries
Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Yemen.
Note: txtNation generally operate on the highest available tariff in the country with outpayments normally around 50%, country specific. txtNation can also provide dedicated codes with your choice of tariff.
Semi-Premium Billed Countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Central African Republic, China RP, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Congo(Dem Rep), Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, French West Indies, Frensh West Indies, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guam, Guinea, Guinea – Bissau, Hong-Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Lao, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saipan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tchad, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United States, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Note: MO Billed through one dedicated LongCode, one API. Outpayments normally around 40%, charge to end user varies per country.
Full real-time statistics, account balance, account settings available online in client administration area. Also txtNation provide a Microbilling platform encompassing the above which also include 240 countries premium rate phone call billing, worldwide credit card, digital wallet, bank transfer, cheque payment, also a solution that allows a one time registration for credit card to make credit card payments by SMS.
Please contact txtNation on sales@txtnation.com for more details, or contact via http://txtnation.com/contact.php.
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Hope that helps guys
“MO Billed through one dedicated LongCode”.
Will somebody explain this please?
steve procter
I second mblox. We’re about to start working with these guys to provide message delivery for our new service and they seem to absolutely rock.
Hi Ewan,
I would recommend mBlox or netsize.com both are quite good. I think mBlox might offer more competitive pricing but netsize offers end user support in each country in the local language.
They would need to get a shared keyword in each of the countries (this can be very expensive).
Cheers,
Amir
+44 7970 49 6624
http://www.txtfo.com
Hi Ewan,
I’d Try Opera, my Premium Rate SMS business supplies UK customers with SMS services for for non UK services I’d probably go to Opera.
Kind Regards
Premium Rate SMS Provider
http://www.Phoneunmbers4u.co.uk
I have used a company called txtNation for the last 2 years. Solid, reliable and good rates. I think they have an mBILL solution for shortcodes that would suit.
Jim.
Still using txtNation for close to a year for all my premium and non-premium.
Seem more customer focused.
Pete
Hi all, i’m looking for Premium SMS Provider for Latin America, any recommendations? so far, i’ve contacted netsize & mblox, but they do not operate in Latin America. thanks!
I am in need of a premium rate sms and shortcode provider for Ukraine / Russia but cant find anyone who supplies and manages these networks
hai
i am looking international premium rate numbers and sms providers
Anybody knows http://www.clickatell.com.
On Alexa.com I noticed that clicatell has about 10 times the traffic of Mblox. This does not necessary mean they are better, but I was wondering.
re: I am in need of a premium rate sms and shortcode provider for Ukraine / Russia.
Sam, there are several Russian companied which can help you:
1. SDK – http://www.sdk.ru
2. Inform Mobile – http://www.immo.ru
I to am looking for a SMS provider in but in Turkey. One who can set up a short code auto response for a promotion. I did find someone in the UK who offered to do it but the cost was enormous.
We do have web enabled applications that we want to “interface” to SMS. Users would send an SMS to an (ideally) short code and our application process accordingly the received info and in turn will send back to the mobile the required informatión.
This is initially for the Mexican market, we are currently looking for a company that can provide the short code, interface to one or more local operators and interfase thru the internet to our servers.
Any comments are welcom, Thx.
we can provide good PSMS and Premium IVR solutions in Romania, Hungary, all Balkan area.
Dan
office@parlatel.ro
Hi,
To give you a run down of my experiences with the aggregators I’ve had experience with
Esendex – Terribly slow to deal with, limited coverage
ZIM – fast to deal with UK / US / Canadian coverage
Truesenses – Good european Coverage, long payout periods, small company.
Jet Multimedia – Europe and Argentinan coverage, quite slow to deal with but very friendly.
WPR – Impossibly slow to deal with, but good international coverage.
Dan,
http://www.freebiesms.co.uk
I had very bad experiense with txtNation company. After the invoice was paid they had been trying to start the required service from February’07 withour any result. Thus I paid for the txtNation support but not for the service. But they don’t forget to send new invoices and very surprised when I’m not going to pay’em more. Think twice.
Hello all!
I’m fooking for Premium SMS rate providers to cover the following countries (sort codes required):
Germany
Israel
UK
France
Finland
Latvia
Litova
Estonia
United Arabian Emirates
Netherlands
Belgium
Norway
Swaziland
Austria
Sweden
Portugal
Spain
Czech
Bulgaria
Hungary
Ireland
Slovakia
Poland
Denmark
Italy
I’ll be thakful for any advices.
Hello,
I am looking for a Premium SMS Provider for Latin America, Chile and Peru in specific, for Mobile Content.
Please drop me a messege @: nir.melamud@gmail.com
Thanks.
A word of advice…
AVOID TXTNATION LIKE THE PLAGUE!!
Poor service,
Poor uptime, (nowhere near the 99.99% offered)
Charge end uers who mispell keywords!!!!!
Hello All,
I am very interested in workig with mBlox, however cannot seem to get a sales rep to return my call. Does anyone there have a contact in sales? Need to get started and anything will help out much.
Thanks!
Hi,
Just to add to the other statements here with regards to TXTNation my advice is DONT GO THERE! After 15 years in business I don’t think I have ever come across a worse supplier and their attitude to dealing with issues absolutely stinks. I will let you know how the court case gets that far!
Can anyone help me find a solution to this problem.I need a desktop-based software or system for news alert service.I want to start a news alert subscription service based on sale of recharge cards.
The subscriber buys the card,scratch them to reveal a serial number generated by the sytem.
following the instructions, the subscriber sms the serial number to a regular number in the system along with a code indicating their prefered service(sports,soccer,showbiz,business,news)
My system receives the sms,authenticates the serial number as mine,stores their number,sends the subscriber a welcome message saying that they will get daily(1 to 10 times) news alerts of their prefered service for 30 days.
the system also groups the subscribers according to their prefered service and number of days(which I will determine by the amount paid for subscription) and organised them to be sent bulk sms for 30 days.After 30 days their number is removed from the subscription list but remains in the database.
The system should be structured in such a way as to have subscription list for 1 to 10 times daily all expiring in 30 days.
Any one out there can design this system get in touch with me-nesta0071@yahoo.com
I am having a terrible time with txtNation. No support and nothing works. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times I contact them because nothing ever gets puts right. All they seem interested in is selling me more products. Run like the wind from this company!!
We offer one number (0024898XXXX) format connected to receive SMS from around 180 operators worldwide, and each SMS received will generate you a certain small revenue (in cents) the same Long Code is also connected to be used for Voice IVR and also provide a good high revenue.
Contact me on : robert.haddad@smartcomgsm.com
Hi Robert,
This is cool that you’ve got voice and SMS on the same number, but the issue is it’s not premium, and it relies on the home networks being able to terminate in the Seychelles and for users to accept paying for international call or sms rates – for a big brand they’d likely want to be able to tell users how much it was going to cost to call or text, and this I suspect would be very very tricky info to collate.
You can visit this site http://www.mysmsaddress.com or http://www.virtualtextmessenger.com the service is fast price in higher volumes is good they claim 500+ networks with delivery reports with text and binary however I have not tested the binary
John
RE: I to am looking for a SMS provider in but in Turkey. One who can set up a short code auto response for a promotion. I did find someone in the UK who offered to do it but the cost was enormous.
Posted by Bill on April 12th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Hi all
We can provide good PSMS and IVR solutions with competitive rates. Our head office is in Istanbul, Turkey. We serve Europe, Asia and US market. If you are interested plz email me at gladys.punzalan@tristit.com
Cheers
Can you suggest to have premium rate SMS & IVR in Dubai, UAE
HI. Am looking for a company that provides shortcode services in Latin America.
You can email me at rudy@chikka.com.
Thanks!
Dear folks,
I’m Ole from Norway. To my knowledge it’s not possible to run a siingle short code globally.
We are using an MVNO called Spiderboss (www.spiderboss.com) and is located in Sweden. To stick to the topic, let me forward part of an email I got from them.
“For Premium SMS we cover these countries:
Middle East: Bahrain, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Americas: Mexico, USA, Canada
Europe: Russia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
Asia/Pacific: Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Brunei, Hong Kong, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Ukraine
Africa: South Africa
”
It’s an impressive list. Also, they are very fast responding.
//Ole
Whatever you do avoid textnation as per the previous posts.
They are cowboys who promise the world but havent a clue.
Ole, I’m try to contact Spiderboss but the email address stated in their website are not working. By chance, do you know any mail address to contact them? Thanks.
We are looking for sometimes but couldn’t find any good PSMS provider for the Asia region. A provider with business model/operate like Truesenses. Any input is much appreciated. Thanks.
Has anyone else had problems with txtnation billing system, as they keep on billing and then say the system has errors, and then do it again. Can anyone recommend a reputable premium sms company in United States?
Can anyone help me with getting short code for premium text sms in Thailand?
PHONE:865 228 9133
Thank you.
Hi there, i need a premium sms solution for the Nigerian market can anybody help me with some info?
Hi,can anyone recommend to me aggregator whom provide premium sms short code for taiwan urgently…thanks
can anyone reconmend any aggregator for Hong Kong?
Hi Can any one recommend a supplier of PSMS in South Korea?
im looking for an aggregator in phillipenes
I can help with most places but I do focus on New Zealand and Australia
Hi, For Latin America, Spain and Portugal, NVIA a Spanish Company is one of the best PSMS provider. I recommend you NVIA. http://www.nviasms.com.
Sandro
I need to make urgent contact with a company offering premium SMS services in Nigeria. I have a mandate to deliver a product for a TV and radio sports show in the south-west of Nigeria. Any ideas?
Reach me on +2348060894427, +2348084144146 or +2347055151788
mikhailng@yahoo.com, sports.bses@gmail.com
I need access to shortcode (PSMS) in Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukrainia and Israel. The SMS services will be run on TV. Especially Serbia is very important. Hope anyone can help.
Erik Bj
Hi,
We can provide you connectivity in UAE – Etisalat , we have a direct connection.
Emad Meitani
Mob: +971-50-6614605
Smart Solutions | Abu Dhabi – UAE | Sales Manager
http://www.ss-me.com | Tel: +971-2-4485017 | Fax: +971-2-4485018
mamacall.com will do this
Sorry Dear it is “mamacall.net”.
http://www.txtnation.com
http://www.txtnation.com