Which telco has the cheapest SMS plan? prepaid/postpaid

currently doing an IoT project which has an SMS fallback in case there's 2G/GPRS connectivity fails. Planning on sending 4 SMS per hour, so that's around 2600+ SMS per month in the worst case scenario. With my current plan (Yoodo) it would cost RM100++ at 4 sen per SMS. Anything else cheaper?

price need to be to all network, not just same network

This post has been edited by amir.asyraf: Sep 17 2021, 01:07 PM

MKN

Can send SMS like it's free

I used Digi

Did you pay tax?

If yes, you paid for it

Actually I don't lmao I don't work in Malaysia.

previously my old phone cannot block mkn sms.

after i change to new phone, i can finally block all the stupiak mkn sms.

If you can do a project like IoT I think you can accommodate with rm100+ cost at the planning stage and leave this question for cost optimization phase after the project is up and running.

wokay.

https://www.hotlink.com.my/en/plan/hotlink-postpaid/

RM30 for unlimited SMS

make sure don't spam marketing SMS or else it will get blocked...

This post has been edited by thankyou: Sep 17 2021, 01:11 PM

u wanna spam marketing ??.. i think whatapps better respond than sms nowadays,..

i'm at that stage lor,.. kind of

what do you mean when no 2G/GPRS? I thought SMS uses 2G/3G/4G at least?
No internet connection as well?

You cannot use ordinary SIM card to blast SMS like that, even though it is unlimited. You will be blacklisted immediately.

Subscribe to short code, or use short code provider.

u got family here ??.. if u sent money to your parents,.. then u still taxpayer,..

get m2m sim and plan, I think celcom, digi both has it.

Screw the fallback man. Iot cost should be low and target for first tier. MYR10 ish per device

4 SMS / hr is okay... if it's IoT usually it's code based SMS... should be fine...

Ur number will get blocked if u they detect u spamming sms

isms provider?

whatsapp or whatever online messaging is cheaper if you can find the right internet plan, but at that point might as well just set up a small server service to accept POST request or something

whoops, nvm. Didn't read that you wanted fallback

This post has been edited by Quantum Geist: Sep 17 2021, 01:21 PM

as mentioned by TS, 4SMS / hr is fine... it's not consider as spamming. and also, it the content is "code based" i.e. alarm etc... it won't be blocked...

nice, thanks. All networks some more. But am hoping for something more per-sms/usage based


SMS can be sent through 2G/3G/4G. But my device only GSM, so just 2G. Sending data through GPRS sometimes fail for some reason. Once I tested it was failing 20 minutes straight, but SMS works fine, so need fallback.


Not blasting la, just to one number only, and just 4 SMS per hour.


hmm I dunno, data availability is sort of important

I thought they are shutting down 2G?

edit: Digi prepaid RM2 for 200 sms. Not sure if it is to all networks.

This post has been edited by loserguy: Sep 17 2021, 01:25 PM

M2M SIM not worth it... those SIM needed when you blasting hundreds a day... thousands a month... then go for M2M SIM...

i wonder if those keep saying sms spam...do really read is actually 4sms per hour.

during SMS era....per hour can go up like few hundreds sms bruh

Telco is shutting down 3G but not 2G... many enterprise devices still rely on 2G so cannot shutdown (for now)...

It's not "read"... but there's detection mechanism to determine if you are breaching the SOP. They are all automated...

Every telco has different filtering/detection mechanism... depending on what kind of content you are blasting... some "ok" some "not ok"...

after all, telco <-> telco messaging settlement still based on /SMS... that's why you cannot abuse the SMS package...

This post has been edited by thankyou: Sep 17 2021, 01:28 PM

yes, there is filter mechanism as SMS is not encrypted.

just ensure the content is not something fancy like those stupid online casino sms spam.

as long as content is short n sweet. it should not trigger.

from your requirement description, what u need is perhaps a Bulk SMS service.. as Telco's default SMS rates quite expensive..

there's many bulk sms service providers, you could try google Silverstreet Malaysia, FireMobile, etc... contact their sales service.. or just google 'bulk sms malaysia provider'..

are you the one who keep spamming my hp with rm288 offer?

https://www.exabytes.my/online-marketing/bulk-sms-marketing

https://www.exabytes.my/online-marketing/bu...rketing#pricing

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what's the content? RM288?

isnt itthis need m2m sms... check with digi

i actually don't know who still have SMS plan on their telco plan

but there are some service out there that requires SMS service
like after reporting to TM, they required us to rate them via SMS...like how?
i don't have a SMS plan like many years already

sms from cuci will report

Depends on Telco yet again. SMS to shortcode sometimes is free especially ask you to rate Digi/maxis service quality. SMS to shortcode charging are all depends on the series...

6xxxx = usually chargeable at premium rate, sometimes chargeable at normal rate...
2xxxx = usually free

don't take it as final...

Oh yea... those gambling cuci cuci....

This post has been edited by thankyou: Sep 17 2021, 03:49 PM

No thank you

Sms is obsolete already thanks to Web based messaging apps.... Who still use sms nowadays?

New plan dont know

My old celcom plan unlimited sms for 80

matter of time you run into problem where the provider suspect u use personal phone for business.. suggest you too look into some provider which provides u a platform to submit your sms via restful service.

My plan got free SMS but I dunno use it for what

can you read or not

it's a personal project. Even if it's commercial it wouldn't matter.

SMS via restful service? tf?

my company is paying around a million euro per month to send sms globally. and yes my vendor sports both soap/restful.

you don't send sms using a personal mobile number it violated fair usage policy of any Telco.

This post has been edited by kidmad: Sep 17 2021, 10:36 PM

lol at the people thinking IOT can use bulk SMS solution.

Your IOT device at remote location, connect to your bulk SMS server how? Magic ah?

Use wifi ah, if got wifi TS send SMS for what?

aiyo you're thinking of transactional or marketing sms la

mine is neither

How many people do you know need to subscribe to business plans? Those business people going around calling their clients left and right are violating fair usage policy? Those Grab/Foodpanda/J&T etc couriers call from phone is also commercial usage, you think it's not personal number?

telcos don't care and I doubt they even enforce it 99% of the time.

and why are you talking about SOAP/RESTFUL? 100% irrelevant.
I'm trying to use SMS as a fallback in case of no internet connectivity

This post has been edited by amir.asyraf: Sep 17 2021, 11:18 PM

.... instead of using your gprs device use services setup by business entity for such operation. well do what you want the line is under your name afterall kena blacklist don't kpkb.

and no companies don't use personal mobile device someone shared bulked sms it's the same.

like I said for the nth time, this is a personal project and not commercial

You need M2M simcard la....using normal postpaid or prepaid will get the line barred due to abnormal sms usage

who u kidding man.. sending out thousands of sms, towards all mobile operator.. yeah right ur on 4 mobile plan walking around town and having continuous notification wouls make u look busy right? hahaha..

also if u should be looking into probing gateways instead of having sms to tell u things are not working. unless whatever your system does works on gprs la. lol

you clearly did not bother to read the thread at all, otherwise you wouldn't have spewed whatever it was you spewed

he just sending 4 sms per hour to his private mobile

wtf u mad or what