Optus SMS Gateway Service
Standard Pricing Table
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1. About this Standard Pricing Table 2
2. Establishment Fee 2
3. Additional MSISDNS and Application Interface Modules 2
4. Usage Charges and Monthly Charges for Alphanumerics 2
5. Pricing Plans 3
6. Additional Charges 4
SMS Gateway – Standard Pricing Table / 4 / 30 August 20161. About this Standard Pricing Table
(a) This is our Optus SMS Gateway service standard pricing table.
(b) This standard pricing table sets out all charges applicable to your use of the service.
(c) If charges are shown as a dollar amount followed by a dollar amount in brackets, the first dollar amount represents the charge before GST is applied, and the dollar amount in brackets is the GST inclusive charge.
(d) The meaning of the words printed like this is set out in the service description or in the SME terms.
2. Establishment Fee
2.1 A one-off establishment charge of $2,500 ($2750) is payable and will be included on the first invoice issued to you (together with any other SMS Gateway Charges).
2.2 This establishment charge covers one MSISDN (provided that the MSISDN is not an alphanumeric).
2.3 We will charge you a one-off administration fee of $100 ($110) if when we first supply the service to you:
(a) we agree to provision a shortcode (an MSISDN of between 6 and 8 characters); or
(b) a MSISDN will be used for premium rate services.
This amount will be included on the first invoice issued to you (together with any other SMS Gateway Charges).
2.4 In addition to any other charges, a one-off administration fee of $100 (including GST) is payable for each alphanumeric that is used by you.
3. Additional MSISDNS and Application Interface Modules
3.1 We will charge you the following for installing additional MSISDNs:
(a) subject to (c) below, $20 ($22) for each additional MSISDN provisioned for you within the Optus number range; or
(b) subject to (c) below, for MSISDN provisioned for you outside the Optus number range:
(i) $100 ($110) for each consecutive range of MSISDNs; or
(ii) $100 ($110) for each non-consecutive MSISDN; or
(c) for each shortcode or MSISDN that will be used for premium rate services (which will only be issued in our absolute discretion), an amount of $100 ($110).
3.2 You acknowledge that it can take us approximately 5 working days to action a request for a MSISDN.
3.3 Subject to availability and our consent, you may reserve a MSISDN for a period of up to 3 months. A charge of $5.00 ($5.50) per month will be payable in respect of any MSISDN's reserved by you.
3.4 You must pay us $2,500 ($2750) for any additional Application Interface Module requested by you.
4. Usage Charges and Monthly Charges for Alphanumerics
4.1 You must select a pricing plan or both pricing plans as set out in below on your application.
4.2 If you decide to use both pricing plans, you must use and pay us for a separate MSISDN for each pricing plan.
4.3 Each pricing plan will be treated separately from the other pricing plan in calculating the Charge Per SMS Gateway Message for a particular month for each SMS Gateway Message sent in that month under the applicable pricing plan.
4.4 You must pay us on a monthly basis:
(a) the Charge Per SMS Gateway Message for each SMS Gateway Message sent in the applicable month, calculated by reference to the pricing plan under which those SMS Gateway Messages were sent; and
(b) any additional charges arising in that month in accordance with the provisions in paragraph 6 of this standard pricing table.
4.5 You must pay a monthly charge of $30 for each alphanumeric you wish to use.
5. Pricing Plans
5.1 Pricing Plan for SMS Gateway Messages sent on a whole of market basis (the "WMB Rate Plan")
(a) Under the WMB Rate Plan, the charges in Table 1 will apply:
Table 1: Charges for messages on a whole of market basis
Monthly Volume Rate Bands / Charge per SMS Gateway Message /Less than 10,000 SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.18 ($0.198)
From 10,001 to 50,000 SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.15 ($0.165)
From 50,001 to 100,000 SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.14 ($0.154)
From 100,001, to 250,000 SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.13 ($0.143)
From 250,001 plus SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.12 ($0.132)
5.2 Pricing Plan for SMS Gateway Messages sent mainly on the Optus Network (the "On-Net Rate Plan")
Under the On-Net Rate Plan, if at least 90% of SMS Gateway Messages sent in a particular month are to Optus End Users, the following pricing table will apply:
Table 2 : Charges for messages mainly on our network
Monthly Volume Rate Bands(Traffic Mix 90% to Optus End Users / 10% Other End Users) / Charge per SMS Gateway Message /
Less than 10,000 SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.17 ($0.187)
From 10,001 to 50,000 SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.11 ($0.121)
From 50,001 to 100,000 SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.11 ($0.121)
From 100,001, to 250,000 SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.10 ($0.11)
From 250,001 plus SMS Gateway Messages per month / $0.10 ($0.11)
6. Additional Charges
6.1 If you send less than:
(a) 30% of SMS Gateway Messages in a particular month under the WMB Rate Plan to Optus End Users; or
(b) 90% of SMS Gateway Messages in a particular month under the On-Net Rate Plan to Optus End Users,
you must pay us on a monthly basis:
(i) an additional sum of $0.18 (excluding GST) per SMS Gateway Message sent outside the percentage specified in paragraphs (a) or (b);
(ii) less the sum already charged according to the relevant Rate Plan (i.e. the if the Customer had a WMB Rate Plan and the SMS Gateway Messages sent in a particular month were 150,000, it would mean that the Customer would pay $0.04 (excluding GST) per SMS Gateway Message outside the specified percentage ($0.18 - $0.13 = $0.05).
For example, if you:
(A) signed up to the On-Net Rate Plan;
(B) sent 500,000 SMS Gateway Messages with 400,000 sent to Optus End Users and 100,000 to Other End Users (eg Telstra mobile phone users) in a particular month using the MSISDN relating to the On-Net Rate Plan,
you have failed to reach the 90% requirement.
· In order to fall within the specified percentage requirement you should have sent only 50,000 SMS Gateway Messages to Other End Users. This number is calculated as follows:
500,000 x (100-90*/100 = 0.1) = 50,000**
· Therefore additional charges will be payable in respect of the following SMS Gateway Messages:
100,000-50,000 = 50,000 SMS Gateway Messages subject to additional charges.
· The additional charges will be:
50,000 x($0.18 - $0.10) = $4,000 ($4,400).
· The total charges for the month in respect of the On-Net Rate Plan will be:
(500,000 x $0.10) + $4,000 = $54,000 ($59,400).
*Note: If we were calculating additional charges for the WMB Rate Plan, the "90" would be substituted for a "30". This means that if 500,000 SMS Gateway Messages were sent using the WMB Rate Plan, in a particular month, you should have sent a maximum of 350,000 SMS Gateway Messages to Other End Users. To the extent this figure was exceeded additional charges would arise.