Meet SMSCountry, The ViaNett Alternative
This blog compares SMSCountry and ViaNett – two SMS service providers.
This comparison guide will look at the pros and cons of SMSCountry and ViaNett. Analysing their pricing, features, unique benefits and more.
After reading this blog, you’d know the best match for your business.
So let’s start.
Why Choose SMSCountry Over ViaNett?
Below is a side-by-side comparison of the main features of SMSCountry and ViaNett.
Key features |  |  |
| Transactional SMS | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Promotional SMS | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| OTP/Verify SMS | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Two-way conversations | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| SMS autoresponders | ✔️ | ❌ |
| SMS personalisation | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Schedule SMS | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| SMS shortcodes | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Long numbers | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Multimedia messaging MMS | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Custom sender ID | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Email to SMS | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Voice SMS | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Voice call | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Text-to-voice | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Outbound dialer-IVR | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Missed call number | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Excel to SMS | ✔️ | ❌ |
| SMS API | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| WhatsApp Business API | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Account manager | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Plug-ins | CRM, e-commerce, accounting & Excel integrations | No plug-ins available |
| Supported platforms | Web-based application SMS on the go (Internet-free) | Web-based application |
| Free trial | Yes | No |
| Pricing | See pricing page | Plans start at USD 45 per month1,000 SMS per month(location-based) |
From the table above, you can see the offerings of SMSCountry and ViaNett.
Here’s the thing. SMSCountry is ahead because of its extensive features.
Let’s break down each service to see the unique benefits and features of each SMS provider.
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What is SMSCountry?
SMSCountry is a text messaging platform. It offers mobile messaging solutions to stay connected with your audience.
You get features like OTP, transactional SMS, 2-way SMS, promotional SMS, and voice SMS. With more features like email 2 SMS and WhatsApp API, you can connect with customers at every stage of their customer journey.
Below is a brief rundown of the key features of SMSCountry.
SMSCountry key features
SMSCountry offers multichannel communication for your business. So you don’t have to sign up with different service providers to cover your business messaging needs.
Here are the communication channels that SMSCountry provides. Let’s move forward.
SMS
SMSCountry’s text messaging features include the following:
- OTP
- Transactional SMS
- Promotional SMS
- 2-way SMS
- Group SMS
- Email to SMS
- Voice SMS
Guess what? With SMSCountry, you can send and receive messages at scale in more than 180 countries and any language.
Also, you can schedule the messages and personalise SMS with merge tags, segmentation, and customer info like names. And that’s not all, you can create automated workflows to automate conversations.
How convenient is that?
Voice service
With SMSCountry voice service, you can do the following:
- Enable IVR functionality to track customer inputs
- Turn your message into a humanised voice in 20+ languages with text-to-voice
- Deploy missed call numbers to let your customers interact with you for free
WhatsApp Business API
SMSCountry’s WhatsApp API offers everything you need to engage your audience on the world’s most popular chat app.
The API allows you to do the following:
- Share all kinds of media, including images and PDFs
- Send locations via the WhatsApp location feature
- Set up bots to automate your customer service
- Automate replies to customer FAQs
Moreover, it has built-in tools, chatbot functionality, interactive buttons, and template management to supercharge your business’ WhatsApp presence.
APIs and plug-in integrations
With SMSCountry SMS APIs, integrate SMS and voice capabilities into your existing website, app, or software in 30 minutes.
You can easily send SMS directly without logging into a separate platform.
SMSCountry also offers multiple e-commerce, CRM, accounting, and Excel plug-ins for hassle-free SMS delivery to your customers from your favourite platform.
SMS on the go
This feature of SMSCountry brings simplicity to a new level.
With SMS on the go, you can send bulk SMS to your customers without an internet connection or a computer.
Here’s how it works. To send a message to your contact list using SMS-on-the-go, you send an SMS from your phone to a dedicated number. SMSCountry will then send the message to your list on your behalf.
Now, look at the benefits you gain when signing up with SMSCountry.
Why SMSCountry Is the Best Alternative to ViaNett
Here are the benefits of SMSCountry SMS service:
- 24/7 customer support via chat, email, text, or call
- One-stop platform for all your communication needs – SMS, Voice and WhatsApp for business
- SMS delivery reports and tracking to measure the performance of your campaigns
- 98% delivery rate and 99.9% uptime ensure that your messages reach the inbox
- Free test credits to try the platform and see if it is a good fit for your business
- No setup fees, contracts or monthly payments. You pay for only what you use
- A dedicated account manager to manage your campaigns
You might be wondering about the cost. Not to worry. Below, we discussed the pricing of SMSCountry SMS service.
How much does it cost to send an SMS with SMSCountry?
SMSCountry offers flexible, pay-as-you-use pricing. There are no monthly payments or contracts. You top up your SMS credits when you need to.
The pricing is based on the network and country where you are sending the SMS.
To get an estimate of how much you’d spend for SMS, voice, or WhatsApp with SMSCountry, you can visit the SMSCountry pricing page to get a customised quote based on your target country/location.
Now you know the features, benefits and pricing of the SMSCountry platform. Let’s take a look at the competitive advantages of SMSCountry over ViaNett.
What is ViaNett?
ViaNett is a Norwegian SMS service provider. The company’s primary focus is on trading and transmission of SMS traffic.
It was acquired by LINK Mobility – Europe’s largest provider of mobile services to the corporate market – on May 24, 2017.
ViaNett offers bulk SMS services, SMS API and mobile payment solutions to companies and individuals worldwide.
Below is a brief rundown of the key features of ViaNett.
ViaNett key features
- Coverage in more than 160 countries and 530 network providers
- Live statistics to keep track of every single message
- MMS and WAP-push message service
- HLR number lookup
- SMS two-way communication
- Shared SMS short code and long numbers
- Simple and fast SMS APIs to easily fit into any project
- SMS billing and mobile payment services
Benefits of ViaNett SMS service
Here are some of the benefits of ViaNett SMS service:
- More than 30 international SMS routes for maximum deliverability
- Automatic or selectable SMS routing according to quality and price
- API documentation and code samples in 10+ languages, including SMTP, Java, YAP and more
- Online statistics tools with summaries or detailed information about every submitted message
- Number look-up to determine the home network of a mobile subscriber to check what network the messages should be sent
How much does it cost to send an sms with ViaNett?
ViaNett pricing varies according to different services like bulk SMS, two-way SMS, MMS and SMS billing.
Bulk SMS pricing varies according to location. Generally, the plans start at USD 45/month for 1,000 SMS per month.
Still confused? You can visit their pricing page for more details.
What makes ViaNett unique?
ViaNett’s uniqueness lies mainly in 3 factors. We’ve discussed them below.
Selectable SMS routes
ViaNett offers selectable SMS routing according to quality and price. The available SMS routes have different quality, features, coverage and costs. Sometimes the price is most important to you, and sometimes quality and speed are critical factors. You can handle the routing yourself based on your requirements.
Home location register (HLR) service
ViaNett provides a home location register (HLR) service to determine the home network of a mobile subscriber. This service checks what network you should send the messages to. It also determines if a subscriber is reachable or if the user has turned off the phone.
MMS
You can send MMS and WAP-push messages through the ViaNett bulk SMS gateway.
Why SMSCountry is better than ViaNett?
In comparing SMSCountry against ViaNett, SMSCountry offers many more features than ViaNett. We discussed them below.
Extensive SMS tools
With SMSCountry, you get a lot of tools to supercharge your SMS campaigns.
For example, you can set up auto responses based on keywords and use customer data to personalise the SMS.
You can also request a custom sender ID that represents your brand. This increases the open rate of your messages and customers’ trust in your brand.
On the flip side, ViaNett only offers a basic bulk SMS gateway. You need some advanced features if you’re looking for maximum ROI for your SMS campaigns.
Multichannel communication
The unique aspect of SMSCountry is that it offers multichannel communication for your business.
You don’t have to sign up with different service providers for OTP, SMS, voice service and WhatsApp.
All of these communication channels are available on one platform. This saves you time, hassle and extra costs of signing up with different service providers.
Account manager
Another unique feature you’d not find anywhere else is that SMSCountry assigns a dedicated account manager to run and manage your SMS campaigns on your behalf (without additional cost).
This means you can focus on other essential aspects of your business without worrying about managing your campaigns.
24/7 customer support
We’re here to help you anytime you’re stuck. Our support team is available and always responsive. So you can get help and find answers to questions as soon as they arise.
Choose the best SMS service provider for your business
There you have it. A complete comparison of SMSCountry and ViaNett.
With this information, we hope you can decide which SMS provider is the best for your business.
You can try SMSCountry for your business easily. Sign up for FREE today and get free SMS credits to test drive SMSCountry.
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