Does anyone know of a VOIP provider in the UK where I can make a web call of any kind (SOAP/REST) with a list of phone numbers and a message and have that voice message sent to every number in the list.
Conference calling is the other requirement.
I know of two US based voice application providers that you can use to call UK numbers, anveo and tropo.
I have used www.voiplove.com to do that their rates are extremely cheap.
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I was looking into Stripe and its support for UnionPay. On the website, we can clearly see logos that indicates support for UnionPay, but I couldn't find anything in API docs.
Was this supported some time ago and is now deprecated?
If not, can someone point me to their docs or better yet, show me an example performing Gateway payment using UnionPay?
As far as I know, China UnionPay is just a card brand (like Visa, Mastercard, Diner's Club, etc.) and there is nothing specific you need to do in order to process such cards with Stripe.
You should reach out directly to Stripe's support at https://support.stripe.com/email to get more information.
Stripe accepts cards with 16 digits ONLY at the moment.
China UnionPay card length is between 16 and 19 digits.
You can find more details about China UnionPay here
We have a sensitive service and only want one sign up per person, more or less. We require phone number verification when signing up. Looking into people we've caught creating multiple accounts we see they use twilio numbers, but this is a manual process of looking up the carrier, etc. etc.
Is there a way to automate this and block twilio numbers? I know craigslist and gmail are able to do this, but I'm not sure how.
Thanks.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You can use the Lookups API to check carrier details about a phone number. Carrier details will include whether Twilio is the carrier.
Let me know if this helps at all.
I am working on an eCommerce website but our client told us to add functionalists like they want to verify an user account by sms or by call.
I don't know how to do this and how many of websites and apps do this.
Do they use any third party services or can we implement it by our won?
If we have to use this service please tell me the name and how much it costs and how to setup?
If there is any alternative please tell em that also.
Moreover I want to use this services for testing also.
Any help would be appreciated.
Some websites/apps build it themselves with SMS / Voice APIs...
Others use a Verification specific API...
With SMS / Voice APIs
You'll need to generate a code
Send it via the channel you use primarily
Set some kind of time delay job (queue, worker, whatever)
Send a fallback message should you get no response from the user
With an SMS API, that likely varies per country,there is a solution that allows you to go globally with an API call for a flat fee of 10 cents per verification, NOT per attempt (unsuccessful attempts will not be charged towards your account)
Nexmo’s Verify API
Make a call to https://api.nexmo.com/verify/json (or /xml)
Add parameters: api_key, api_secret, verified number, brand
Optional parameters: language, length
Take a look at the Nexmo's Verify documentation here!
Verification code should arrive to your phone as an SMS. If you wait a while, you'll also get a phone call, and the code will be read to you. The timing and channels used depends on the type of number, the country, and the carrier.
Reasons to implement Nexmo's Verify
Landline & Mobile Verification
Failover & Retry Sequences
Simplicity.. Just make one API call
Other alternatives: Enterprises (sign a heavy/clunky contract)
Full disclosure, I work at Nexmo
I am trying to send SMS to the people all over the world using a non-registered short codes, but the sms cannot be delivered to US or Canada. How do I achieve this?
Is there an API to get information of the country using a phone number, so that I can know if the current number is of US or Canada's?
(Disclaimer: I work at Nexmo.)
To identify US vs CA numbers you can use Nexmo's Number Insight API. Besides the country you can also get lots of info, landline or mobile, carrier, reachable or not, etc.
If you you want to send to the US using short codes without needing a short code yourself, you can also use our US Short Codes API. If your use case fits into what we support (two-factor authentication, alerts, or marketing).
My idea is to make an application start automatically when a message from a specific user reaches the inbox of the mobile . For example if my friend sends some numbers to my mobile, the sms has to be read and validated first and then calculator ( inbuilt mobile application) has to be triggered and process the numbers from the message. Please help me with the above query.
I am far from convinced you will be able to give the phone user access to the same sms you use to launch your MIDlet.
You may need to use native development on the phones that support it if J2ME can't give you exactly what you need.
In any case, you probably want to try with J2ME first so you need to read the specifications for JSR-118 and its PushRegistry API, along with JSR-120, which interfaces with SMS.
Most current J2ME-enabled phones will support static SMS Push but you will need to send the SMS to a particular port, much like you would data over a standard library socket.
I don't think you can trigger on just any old SMS message arriving.
This is the class you want to look at, in any case:
javax.microedition.io.PushRegistry