Whilst every man and his dog seems to have an outbound SMS solution to reach umpteen million countries, it's a completely different matter when you want things like long numbers, shortcodes, and (quite importantly) something that's going to tick the boxes when it comes to reliability, throughput and reach.

More info about them here: http://www.ericsson.com/solutions/ipx/ and local contact listed here: http://www.ericsson.com/solutions/ipx/contact.s…

Cheers,
Nick

MACH connectivity is based in Germany with its own SMSC and dedicated SS7 links to more than 530 MNO's in the world. MACH Mobile services provide several SMS bulk provision services, a Number Lookup service and Virtual SIM hosting.

Lets connect.

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The platform can be used “self-service” from the public website or we can tailor a deployment to your requirements. As well as broadcasting SMS campaigns, you can integrate the system into your websites, build mobile pages, and get detailed reporting.

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Cheers, — Nik Bagdon

If you're calling an international number, are you still only charged if the call actually connects? Issues I can imagine happening… not all plans allow calls to overseas numbers, furthermore what happens if the user calls from a landline, or if their number is withheld, or can't for whatever reason be detected.. Theoretically a work around to global inbound comms, but a more sensible approach might be to just use a long number, and accept that many users will have to pay an international rate to send to it!