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We've had good luck with twilio.com. nexmo.com isn't bad, as long as your carrier actually gets the SMS' it sends.
Nextmo seems soooo good
i use clicksms
A bit off topic, but why do you guys still use email to SMS when we have push email?
I've found Clickatell to be pretty good, although I haven't used them in a while.
@Chief +1 for clickatell, use them for all my projects. Pretty good pricing and really well documented, easy to integrate into anything.
@jhadley Customers tend to ignore and/or dismiss emails from their provider, and if use a tittle with lots of exclamation signs and "Emergency Emergency" just to get their attention, then they will panic. SMS makes perfect sense.
@Chief +1 for Clickatell - and there is also a WHMCS module for this kind of stuff: http://www.whmcs.com/appstore/116/The-SMS-Addon-plus-Admin-Secure.html
People are still reachable via mobile network if the web-/mail-network fails.
In this case it's being used for a second stage of authentication where email is already in use.
Twilio looks good, clickatell has some credit based system as where I find the twilio website far more straight forward. API is nice as well.
Now off to find/test a heap of 25% coupons in the hope one works
Guess Twilio doesn't have the $30 signup bonus anymore.
Here's a couple more:
How about play with Google's Two Step Authentication?
There's clients for most devices these days, including J2ME phones
I can vouch for https://www.tropo.com/ , I implemented them in an authentication process with absolutely no issues and have not had one problem with them, in a system that gets used ~15-30 times a day.
This. I'm playing around with getting it to work with php auth system at the moment, would make a good option to use it on a vps control panel.
Also, Twilio are great too, excellent APIs. Met the guys who run it and used it a lot of apps. Just a little more expensive though.
Is it this? http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
@Damian Yeah, those are the mobile apps you use to authenticate with. It's used for Google's two-step authentication on their accounts.
Dropbox use it too I think, and you can integrate it into your own apps.
Thanks! I'll look into this.
Indeed, and it's pretty straightforward too
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Conspiracy.
I can recommend Twilio. They've got a straight-forward interface, a good API and some libraries for popular programming languages to get you started. They're cheap, though the fees do vary per country.
SendHub is promising too. Cheaper than Twilio for sending SMS with easy to use API.
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EDIS?
As an alternative to Google....
Havent used the service yet but the people behind this auto service are extremely sharp and solid: http://www.duosecurity.com/pricing /cc @chief
$3 per user per month.. no thanks :P