You can now enable two-way SMS text messaging on all Plivo toll-free phone numbers in the United States.
Plivo delivers text messages with the lowest latency, highest delivery rates, and most affordable prices in the market. Our toll-free phone numbers use the same powerful SMS API as our SMS long codes and SMS short codes. It’s easy to create SMS campaigns on your existing voice-enabled toll-free phone numbers without migrating subscribers to a new phone number.
Toll-free SMS is an excellent alternative for A2P (application-to-person) traffic. Any business can now send A2P text messages on any toll-free phone number in the US. You can instantly provision a Plivo toll-free number, and enabling a phone numbers for SMS is easy. Instead of waiting months for a SMS short code to be enabled, you can start sending toll-free messages within 48 hours.
Here’s how short codes and toll-free, our two A2P SMS phone number offerings in the United States, compare:
| Features |
Short Code (555555) |
Toll-Free SMS (1-800-555-5555) |
|---|---|---|
| Accepted Traffic Type | Application-to-Person (A2P) | Application-to-Person (A2P) |
| Price per Month | $1,000 – $1,500 | $1 |
| Additional Network Fees | Extra | Free |
| Application Process | 12 Weeks | 2 Days |
| Voice Enabled | No | Yes |
| Handset Delivery Reports | No | Yes |
| Two-way SMS | Yes | Yes |
| Long SMS Concatenation | Yes | Yes |
| Unicode Characters | Yes | Yes |
| Message Queuing | Yes | Yes |
| Real-Time SMS Alerts and Logs | Yes | Yes |
