Are you able/willing to share the solution you ultimately picked? -- Nathan
-----Original Message----- From: VoiceOps [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Balashov via VoiceOps Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2023 7:00 PM To: Carlos Alvarez Cc: VoiceOps Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] A2P-aaS No on voice calls. Third-party over-the-top app has already been suggested, e.g. Pushover, and there's also Pagerduty an others. There are non-SMS solutions, for sure, but someone offered me a compelling SMS solution off-list and that's easiest for me to roll with right now. Thank you to all who responded! > On Sep 7, 2023, at 6:00 PM, Carlos Alvarez via VoiceOps > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Petition the FCC for a change (or whoever is making up these requirements > seemingly randomly). > > As far as bypassing the notification wall, this is going to amuse you, but > you know, you could just….make the system call you. LOL. Or find an app > that does notifications with the “deliver urgently” mode, which certainly > works. I know because I have a necessary app that won’t let you disable > them, so to prevent being woken up by a meaningless alarm I have to > force-kill it every night. > > > On Sep 7, 2023 at 1:31:16 PM, Alex Balashov via VoiceOps > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a purely internal portal application that is used to send SMS >> notifications about customer monitoring incidents and emergencies about... >> twice a month. Maybe 5-10 messages per month total, across several >> associates combined. It's all done through Twilio's SMS API. >> >> There is not enough Prozac, pot, liquor, etc. in the world that's going to >> make me log into Twilio's portal and do their campaign enrollment. For these >> negligible volumes of purely internal notification traffic, a pure cost >> centre, not customer-facing anything, etc., I just don't care, and you won't >> make me care. >> >> However, these notifications are fairly essential because they allow me to >> pierce the iOS "Do Not Disturb" wall on our phones and get them even at 3 >> AM. There's no decent over-the-top alternative I can see; I have to enable >> notifications for an over-the-top messaging application as a whole, the last >> thing I want to do. >> >> So, there's a business opportunity here for an SMS provider who 1) offers a >> relatively straightforward REST API to send SMS and 2) will take care of the >> A2P campaign garbage aspect. >> >> I'd love if someone took that up. >> >> -- Alex >> >> -- >> Alex Balashov >> Principal Consultant >> Evariste Systems LLC >> Web: https://evaristesys.com >> Tel: +1-706-510-6800 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops -- Alex Balashov Principal Consultant Evariste Systems LLC Web: https://evaristesys.com Tel: +1-706-510-6800 _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
