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The 200+ countries is slightly misleading, especially when the title mentions two-way messaging. I've done a lot of research into messaging/SMS providers like Twilio, Nexmo, Plivo, etc for supporting two-way messaging in developing countries. Most providers currently only support two-way messaging in similar subset of countries in North America and Europe. Since it is powered by Twilio, I don't think it adds any new countries and definitely not 200.

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223183068-Twili...




Pinpoint works with multiple partners and carriers. You can get the list of countries here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/userguide/channel...

Disclaimer: I wrote the post and work for AWS


Thanks for the reply. Are you saying that all of these countries support two-way messaging? It's my impression after signing up and looking at pricing pages that many of these countries only support outbound messaging.


You're totally right. We'll update the list of countries that support 2-way messaging in the docs in the next few days. It's ~50 or so.


Hey, one thing I spent a bit of time trying to find and couldn't was if the numbers would be designated cell phone numbers?

For example, in Thailand all cellphone numbers start with 08/09, in the UK with 07. There are some funny local laws about that. I have quite a few usecases in mind which require the provision of a cell phone number.


One can send SMS to (at least some) landlines in the UK.


When is SIP trunking and Hosted Business PBX getting added to AWS?




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