[ILUG] SMS sending

[Ruairi Hickey]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 15:34:51 laurent wrote:
> Le mardi 19 mai 2009 à 15:30 +0100, Niall O Broin a écrit :
> > 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.
>
> If they are like 'Tarf it's 3/4 per week during the season
>
> > Niall

Yeah, Coaches can log on and email teams, subsets of teams or multiple teams 
as well as general supporters lists and there are 3 or 4 texts per group per 
week..  It is very convenient to be able to cancel 300 kids from age 6  - 12 
at 8:30 on a Sunday morning all in one go..    And given that a letter to 
members works out at approx e1 - stamp, envelope, paper, toner, time - txting 
is much cheaper / more convenient.

Ruairi