[Nazzareno]

They need to fix many things, it doesn't seem they have a good knowledge and experience on the sms messaging world.

1) have a specific price for every single network makes it impossible to calculate which will be the final real cost for each country

2) it's crazy expensive outside the US. Every player in the SMS industry is 4x lower on average. IE: http://www.mailup.com/pricing/sms/

3) they don't support text as a sender. In many countries you can have "MyCompany" as a sender instead of a generic number or short code. This makes the communication much more effective.

4) They claim the pricing will be different for transactional & marketing traffic, but it's not clear how , they just provide one only price list.

5) first 100 messages to US numbers free (each month). I expect they will be soon abused and they will retire this offering.

6) they don't support 2-way communication

7) SMS prices usually go down when volumes increase

[slig]

> 3) they don't support text as a sender. In many countries you can have "MyCompany" as a sender instead of a generic number or short code. This makes the communication much more effective.

They do support it in some countries [1]:

> AWS.SNS.SMS.SenderID > A custom ID that contains up to 11 alphanumeric characters, including at least one letter and no spaces. The sender ID is displayed as the message sender on the receiving device. For example, you can use your business brand to make the message source easier to recognize.

> Support for sender IDs varies by country. For example, messages delivered to U.S. phone numbers will not display the sender ID.

> If you do not specify a sender ID, the message will display a long code as the sender ID in supported countries. For countries that require an alphabetic sender ID, the message displays NOTICE as the sender ID.

[1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sms_publish-to-phon...