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Ask HN: Cheap Or Free Mass Text Message Services
7 points by profgubler on March 18, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I am looking into building an app that would require sending large amounts of text messages out to people. However, these messages wouldn't need to be sent in a timely manner. Is their a service that is cheap or (as I might have heard) free that I can build off of to send these types of messages with my application? Thanks.



Twilio comes to my mind - http://www.twilio.com


In India we have carriers (like BSNL) who provide 5500 (ya that is five thousand five hundred) messages for Rs 55 (roughly $1.09965).That is relatively cheap. I am sure that there would be such carriers in your locality. Take help from a hardware hacker and setup an arduino to send your messages for you.




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