Bulk SMS cost for a crowdsourcing project

[nivedita kashyap]

Hello everyone!

Does anyone here have experience with crowdsourcing data via SMS? We're trying to collect some data about Solid Waste Management in Bangalore through citizen volunteers sending data via SMS. So I wanted to know the cost of getting service providers (Airtel/Vodafone etc.) to set up a number specifically for this project which will roughly see about 100 SMSes per week.

Any help is appreciated, do feel free to get in touch with me at vak...@gmail.com. 

Best,

Nivedita

[Nagarajan M]

Whether you want to send or receive sms.

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[Febin John James]

well have a look at txtweb.com 

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[Sutirtha Roy]

FrontLine SMS could be another option: 

http://www.frontlinesms.com/

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Sutirtha Roy,
Full Economic Citizenship | Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
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[Manish Malik]

You can use any of the numerous SMS Services Providers to buy a "Longcode" number (a 10-digit number people can send SMS to). Can cost between Rs. 500/- to Rs. 1000/- per month (and quite less than that of that if bought for longer duration). These services can send the data to your web server when an SMS is received, among other things.

Check SMSLane (http://longcode.smslane.com/) or mVaayoo (http://www.mvaayoo.com) -- I have used them both as a customer.

Best,
Manish

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:03 PM, nivedita kashyap <vak...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Vinkesh Banka]

You can use an Android  phone as a SMS gateway, to receive SMS almost free of cost.

Please take a look at http://smssync.ushahidi.com/index

Regards~

[Venkatraman S]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Vinkesh Banka <vinkes...@gmail.com> wrote:

You can use an Android  phone as a SMS gateway, to receive SMS almost free of cost.

Please take a look at http://smssync.ushahidi.com/index

This looks nice. I hope this does not annul the ToS of Airtel/Vodofone.

Also, is there something similar to 'send' SMS(preferably with a Python API or supporting REST) from a webserver, that is.

Venkat 

[Johnson Chetty]

Hi, 

RapidSMS and Kannel are both Python based.

We use RapidSMS for chalobest.in (under development) for the SMS based response.

We've done something from the ground up.
We've hooked up a modem (with a SIM card) to our web server and a RapidSMS instance

uses the modem for SMS.

Cheers

Venkat 

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[Kailash Thakur]

You could check out rapidsms as well which is python based. 

http://www.rapidsms.org

[Thejesh GN]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Vinkesh Banka <vinkes...@gmail.com> wrote:

You can use an Android  phone as a SMS gateway, to receive SMS almost free of cost.

Please take a look at http://smssync.ushahidi.com/index

Regards~

Thanks a lot. Its super cool. and really really hackable. Now my friends can send me "QUOTE" and I reply with a quote. Only some friends :)

[Deepa Gupta]

If you want to be able to receive and send large amounts of calls and SMSes (i.e. in the lakhs) in very short periods of time (like a few hours) then you will need to use a provider like exotel or zipdial, otherwise the rest of the options are good..

Deepa Gupta

Founding Director

M:  +91-8884-106-654

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[Sabarish, KSITM]

	Dear All,  I am copying this mail to Mr Baas and Iven of Travancore Analytics, a company who has done a project of Similar kind getting feedback from Kerala Electricity Board Consumers, may be they can help you. Regards Sabarish.K +91 9447811556

[Rahul Gonsalves]

+Vijay Sharma (Exotel)

[Rahul Gonsalves]

+datameet.

On 16-Apr-2013, at 5:36 PM, Vijay Sharma <vi...@exotel.in> wrote:

> Thanks Rahul,
>
> Hi Nivedita,
>
> You can not only use SMS but voice and Ivr too to collect the data.
> http://exotel.in/case-studies/ngo-non-profits-use-technology/amnesty-india-mobilizes-1-3-million-people-with-exotel-for-justice-for-srilanka/
>
> http://exotel.in/blog/survey-market-research-data-collection-tools-for-india-online-offline/
>
> Check these 2 posts out that will give you a better example. I'll ask my team to follow up and help you further. Also just goto www.exotel.in and create a free trial account where you will get 50rs. To test out SMS and voice based data collection methods. Once you create a free trial account am sure someone from the team will help you out.
>
> Thanks
> Vijay
>
> Sent on the go.

[nivedita kashyap]

Thank you very much for all your messages! We were able to zero-in on a provider because of the info you provided. Appreciate your help a lot.

Best,

Nivedita