The Basics

The description of business solutions and what they are and how they work often lead to questions about the underlying technology.  TextPower delivers simple commercial-grade solutions often solving complex business problems. SMS is a relatively new technology achieving record results for U.S. businesses.  Here is how it works:

The carriers offer connections in to their SMS systems through which authorized companies can send and receive the data. When one sends a text message from one phone to another, it is a simple transaction with the text going to that phone. If one sends a text message to Papa John's pizza for instance, that TEXT gets routed to the computer at the TextPower type company handling that account. The receiving computer responds and a reply is sent back to the originators phone. So if you want to receive messages in for some reason, you contract with a company like TextPower to setup an inbound TEXT address and process those messages. We provision that so all carriers recognize that inbound address and you setup with us, what to do with the TEXT when they come in. Similarly, when companies want to send a lot of text messages out, they use an TextPower like company to connect their computer in to the carriers.

TextPower is one one of the top 5 full-service SMS providers in the U.S. and one of only three approved and fully provisioned for National TV SMS programs. Our messaging heritage runs back 15 years.  O'Hare Airport for instance,  uses our solution for emergency messaging; NBC/Apprentice used TextPower messaging to Launch the 2007 series in LA; Kenny Chesney, one of the top five performers in the world, selected TextPower for premium SMS services.