Things To Consider When Choosing An Sms Service

| Tuesday, June 3, 2014
By Wanda Rosner


With a growing percentage of people now into texting, more people are subscribing to SMS service providers to join in the fun. However, there are certain questions you should ask before committing to these service providers. Failure to do so might see you regret your choice for a SMS service provider.

Cost is an important factor you should look at. Make a list of the available providers and range their costs. Find out if they are credit based or SMS based. In credit based, one will buy a number of credits, which are used to send texts. Different destinations have different credit rates. The other option is that you buy a bundle of texts where the cost for sending is the same for all destinations

When providers advertise themselves online they can put very cheap prices on their services. However, after luring their customers they drop the bomb of hidden costs on them. This can be very frustrating especially if one is on a tight budget. They do this intentionally so it is wise to go over their portfolio to confirm all the charges.

A provider might require you to meet a minimum purchase requirement. This means that one has to have at least the lowest stated value of credits or tests as required by the provider. Evaluate yourself and see if you occasionally text or if you do not text a lot. If you are the former, you can pick the minimum requirement you prefer but if you are the latter, consider a provider with no minimum requirements.

It can be frustrating to buy many credits only for them to expire in a relatively short time. One should check the expiry period the provider offers before your credits are rendered invalid. Different providers have different expiry periods and so if one does not text a lot they should pick the longest expiry date possible. Otherwise make projections of your expected traffic and buy credits that are going to serve you reasonably.

The network coverage is another important factor to look at. Some providers have network coverage that can be of very low quality and thus people cannot be able to communicate if they are far away. Some providers might not even control their networks directly. Therefore, as a subscriber it would be reasonable to test their network coverage to see if it is excellent.

You may find a service company is charging cheaply but their signals are very weak. This can mean a very low quality of network and your text massages may fail to reach their destinations. Testing the quality of their network is extremely important and majority of providers will give you free texts to test their network. Additionally, most will give you routing options, either the more expensive reliable one or the cheap less reliable ones.

See how easy it is to manage your account. Most will have internet based management accounts that will help you manage it. All managing accounts relatively are the same as they allow the user to check on their remaining credits or texts left. The difference may come to the ease of using their websites. This includes how friendly and organized the user interface is and if it has help options. All this factors thus help one to choose the best provider.




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