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Appendix B: SMS Aggregators
As noted in Chapter 3, “ Week 2: Start Simple—SMS,” SMS aggregators are specialty businesses that have established technical integration and business relationships with the wireless carriers. These relationships enable aggregators to perform two key tasks: buy SMS messages from the carriers in cost-effective bulk, and send SMS messages quickly and efficiently across the wireless carriers' networks. These are tasks you cannot do yourself, neither as an individual nor as a major corporation.
Per the Common Short Code Administration (CSCA) website (www.usshortcodes.com/), SMS aggregators are categorized into tiers based on their capabilities and relationships with the carriers. Note that the following lists of aggregators, ...
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