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13 Aug, 2014
The Bandwidth App Platform allows any software service or app to provide voice and messaging capabilities using simple APIs, with unmatched economics and essential features that only a carrier can provide
Raleigh, North Carolina – August 12, 2014 –
Bandwidth, one of the nation’s leading communications technology companies today announced that it is the first telecommunications provider to offer a direct-to-carrier cloud API platform for voice and messaging. The Bandwidth App Platform is a cloud communications API platform that allows software companies to easily create voice calling and messaging products. The platform also allows easy API integration with essential carrier-powered services such as automated phone number porting APIs, better text messaging interoperability with short codes and E911 services. Mobile and internet-based applications are changing the way we talk and message, as services such as Pinger and WhatsApp have risen from obscurity to billions of users worldwide. As these services have grown in popularity, they have been supplemental services – but not replacements – for traditional phone lines and wireless connections in North America. The next wave of OTT innovation and growth must address how to replace more expensive but less feature rich communication services. Many of these services will be built directly on API platforms that need access to all the features traditional services have, such as:
Raleigh, North Carolina – August 12, 2014 –
Bandwidth, one of the nation’s leading communications technology companies today announced that it is the first telecommunications provider to offer a direct-to-carrier cloud API platform for voice and messaging. The Bandwidth App Platform is a cloud communications API platform that allows software companies to easily create voice calling and messaging products. The platform also allows easy API integration with essential carrier-powered services such as automated phone number porting APIs, better text messaging interoperability with short codes and E911 services. Mobile and internet-based applications are changing the way we talk and message, as services such as Pinger and WhatsApp have risen from obscurity to billions of users worldwide. As these services have grown in popularity, they have been supplemental services – but not replacements – for traditional phone lines and wireless connections in North America. The next wave of OTT innovation and growth must address how to replace more expensive but less feature rich communication services. Many of these services will be built directly on API platforms that need access to all the features traditional services have, such as:
- Fast and easy phone number porting so users can keep their numbers
- Virtual phone numbers that can receive text messaging with any short-code
- Business-grade features like updating Caller ID databases for a business number
- Ability to call 9-1-1 and services to register numbers for emergency calls
- Searching and activating phone numbers throughout North America
- U.S., Canadian and Toll-Free numbers
- Managing call routing, bridging, recording and transcribing calls
- Sending and receiving text messages
- Texting to speech and building IVRs
- Playing media files on phone calls
- Sending and receiving DTMF and keypad input
- Conference calling
