Good afternoon. There’s stiff competition in the market of mailings at the moment. How are you going to overcome it?
Do you mean texting? Most of the companies are looking for the lower price of SMS delivery because now they pay top dollar for the service. Birdchain will offer much lower price for a better quality service thus it will have no competition. |
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Good afternoon. Does it turn out that if my company orders a service from you, this fact allows it not to come into any agreements with all the providers? It’ll allow saving lot’s of means, especially in case of large corporations.
That is correct. |
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Good afternoon. I also have unlimited calls within the operator's network in tariff plan. Do not you plan to use them for "cold calls"?
We will implement this feature if we reach Wave 7 Milestone - Voice Call Gateway Extending the platforms capabilities by allowing users of the app to sell not only their SMS but also leftover call time. Voice Call will enable companies reach their customers with a pre-recorded voice message through a fully automated Online System. You can find more information here: https://www.birdchain.io/assets/whitepaper.pdf |
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I haven’t found any link references among the examples of SMS in your WP. Can’t they be distributed via your platform?
I would love to answer, but could you please elaborate this question? Please. |
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Hi. I’ve noticed that undergoing KYC is mandatory. Will people who are 18 years old be able to take part in it?
KYC procedure is mandatory for people contributing more than 10 Ether and it checks if you have affiliations with terrorists or criminals. IF you do not have such affiliations, you are good to go  |
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Good afternoon. Is there any restriction on the number of messages sent from one number? I'm afraid that if there are too many of them, the provider may have claims.
We recommend not to sell more messages than it is stated in your fair usage agreement. Usually, it is from 100 to 500 SMS per day (but might be more or less - you should check your contract). If you are selling SMS without exceeding that number, you are operating in terms of your contract and everything will be fine. |
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Hi. Usually it is necessary to conclude contracts with cell providers for carrying out mailings and to pay extra to them. Will your platform get rid of this kind of costs?
Hi, I did not quite understood your question. You already have a contract with your mobile operator. And you get a lot of SMS for free and you do not use them. Why would you need additional contract? |
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Hi. Today you are implementing only SMS send-out, but what about MMS? They are already quite outdated, but they are perfect for the most of non-modern phones.
There were reasons why MMS did not catch up. It was not universal and was not 100 percent compatible between devices. MMS would be very difficult to implement. |
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seems like a promising idea. need to look into it more. didn't think the costs were that high for businesses sending sms's when normal users now have practically unlimited supply
Yeah, I have gathered data from some countries about the prices. They might seem small, but companies send thousands and millions SMS per month, thus the final sum is quite large. Please check the table with prices here: http://prntscr.com/hg8eou |
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Now you get 50% more tokens than you pay for. I did not succeed in finding exact timings, so it's better to buy them right now and not miss your chance!
Our bonus depends not on time, but on total gathered sum. Please check our white paper. Look for "waves" |
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Good afternoon. How does the bonus work at the moment, and how long will it still be valid?
Hi, The bonus is added automatically. For example, you contribute 1 ether and receive 42000 BIRD tokens + 21000 BIRD tokens. The bonus will last until the soft cap is reached. Then bonus will be 45 percent. |
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Hi, you had really nice discussion here, from Birdchain point of view, I just want to add several points. 1. There are several types of A2P SMS. Transactional and promotional SMS are the most popular, but not the only ones. 2. The future of A2P SMS is Transactional messages. Codes, passwords, and notifications about bank transactions, bookings and so on. Because of the reasons Gamelander mentioned: "At the same time, all ages and social groups are open to SMS." I would add that SMS is platform-independent; network-independent; geographically independent; non-proprietary; app-independent (no need to have an app to communicate); does not require a data subscription (roaming scenarios for example); by far the most standardized messaging technology. And the best part is that number of transactional messages is growing and will keep growing in the future. 3. I want to address the elephant in the room and say something obvious. Promotional messages via SMS will die out eventually. As P2P texting was taken over by instant messaging, the same will happen with promotional SMS. Colours, longers text, stickers, images, gifs are way more convenient for marketing. Today IM has very little share of promotional texting market, because they do not provide API or does not allow sending promotional messages at all. But it will change in 5-10 years. 4. We are getting ready for the disappearance of promotional SMS. That is why Birdchain app will be the instant messenger. It means that by developing Birdchain we are not simply solving today's problems of A2P SMS market. Are getting ready for the future. Please check our simulation app: https://www.birdchain.io/download. As there are quite a lot of IM apps, our main advantage will be - rewards for sold SMS. Not one IM offers money for using it. 5. After we develop successful Birdchain A2P SMS service, we will start working on new ways for people to earn and companies to reach existing and potential customers. For example, BIRD tokens for watching video ad, selling your minutes, selling your personal information, and so on. This was mentioned in our White paper If you will have more questions, please feel free to ask |
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Hello. Why is the bonus now so big? Is this Pre-ICO?
No, ICO just started recently and developers want to reward those who believed in them from the very beginning. Very good explanation. Thank you |
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Hello. Why is the bonus now so big? Is this Pre-ICO?
We did not have pre-ICO, thus we give bonuses for first purchasers. |
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I got it. Thank you. So can I mine tokens of this platform by buying packets of messages from my operator for a currency, and providing them for sending to the app? Don’t I even need to buy tokens during the sale in order to do this?
Basically, yes, but it is not "Mining" as mining. You will be rewarded with tokens for selling SMS. You will not "mine" new tokens because a number of tokens is defined. And if you are looking for the best price for the token you will not get better one than today: 1) For 1 ETH you get 42000 BIRD tokens 2) Plus you get Wave bonus. At the moment it is 50 percent. So, in total you get 63000 tokens. 3) if we will not reach hard cap, but reach soft cap, remaining tokens will be distributed proportionally to all contributors. The more you contribute, the more you will get. |
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Good afternoon. I realized that my unused messages will be used to send out mailings. Does it turn out that all people that will receive messages will see my number?
No, you’ve probably got SMSs with transactions or promos. All of them are sent from hidden numbers, users only see the name of the company that sent them a message. It happens like that most often, but not always. For example, my banking always sends me SMS from the same number, I can even call it back to get help. In addition, I’m annoyed by the fact that the messages come in the dead of night or contain outdated information. These problems is what the platform plans to fight with. There will always be thousands of active subscribers in the database providing their messages for send out. As a result, double benefit - the corporation receives cheap SMS, and you get tokens for messages that were not used at all. Very good observation. Speed of SMS sent through the aggregators is very limited by operators (sometimes up to 10 SMS/second). Speed of SMS sent via phone of person are instant (the P2P SMS are prioritized) and delivered through better routes. Thus Birdchain will solve this problem - our customers will get better quality of SMS delivery than ever before. |
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How can I be sure that texts send from my cell phone via your IM app will not look like spamming?
What do you mean? Companies will be obliged to clearly state thay they are the ones which is sending the message. We will send SMS from various phones and mix them all the time, so that your number will not be the "spamming" number. We also will implement Spam and Scam filters so that you would not send such messages. Actually we use such filter right now for our current business: vertexsms.com. Did I answer your question? |
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Good afternoon. I realized that my unused messages will be used to send out mailings. Does it turn out that all people that will receive messages will see my number?
No, you’ve probably got SMSs with transactions or promos. All of them are sent from hidden numbers, users only see the name of the company that sent them a message. Sorry, but recipients will be able to see senders numbers. It is impossible to hide it when sending SMS from private number. BUT there are good news as well: 1) We will block incoming SMS and calls from recipients number to senders phone for 72 hours. 2) Birdchain will not send SMS to your contact list. We will use someone else's phone to reach your friends and family. 3) Companies will be obliged to clearly state who is sending the message. 4) We will send SMS from various phones and mix them all the time, so that receivers would not want to call. 4) There will be very little cases of such events, because How often do you want to call a number which sent you Google password authentication? |
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