Notification Alternatives to SMS

Notification Alternatives to SMS

Aug 30, 2023

Product Managers Abby Allen and Vivek Raj Saxena join Engineering Manager Girish Shankarraman to talk with Mandi Walls about the challenges and regulatory environment of SMS notifications. SMS is a popular notification channel for PagerDuty users but other types of notifications can get you important information faster.

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Time Stamps:

00:00 - Intro

05:20 - How PagerDuty uses SMS

06:50 - Carrier and International-level challenges with SMS

11:50 - Guaranteeing deliverability based on compliance requirements

14:20 - Limitations based on spam laws

17:20 - The cost of SMS

20:00 - Limitations to customizing your alert SMS messages from PagerDuty

26:00 - Push notifications as a more reliable alternative to SMS

31:00 - Features of the PagerDuty mobile app

39:00 - Q&A

46:15 - New notification and communications features coming to PagerDuty

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