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What is Bandwidth?

With Bandwidth, enterprises deliver exceptional communication experiences everywhere. We enable you to integrate voice, messaging, and emergency services into your communications the way you want. Offering the simplicity of one command center, the Bandwidth platform enables a fully customized employee and customer communications stack with: - Dynamic communication APIs - The most direct-to-carrier integrations in the world - An owned and operated network that reaches 65+ countries - Automation to manage it all and get call quality and message deliverability insights via the Bandwidth app You scale with reliability, compliance expertise, and award-winning support.

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Bandwidth is a communications platform with limitless flexibility. You need integrations, enterprise-class APIs for voice, SMS, and more, and tools to manage your communications stack intelligently. We are open where you need it most, with optionality and control. When combined with our global network, which is directly connected where it matters most, you get unmatched reliability. Bringing your customers closer. Scaling wherever your business takes you.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Bandwidth delivers communications infrastructure expertise and unmatched network experience—a combination unlike any other in the industry.

Our universal platform is open where you need it most, making it easier to unbundle telecom and integrate directly into applications like your collaboration tools or contact center platform. Our API library offers global use cases you can start with and scale. And, our global network is directly connected where it matters most, to give you unmatched reliability.


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Bandwidth
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Year Founded
1999
HQ Location
Raleigh, NC
Twitter
@bandwidth
10,658 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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1,204 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Bandwidth is the universal communications platform that simplifies how businesses deliver integrated global experiences. It's flexible and ready to integrate with your entire communications stack. It's built on our own global network for unmatched reliability. And it's grounded in both telecom and real-world software expertise. So you can create exceptional experiences for customers—anywhere in the world. Check out the platform that Cisco, Google, Microsoft, RingCentral, Uber, Zoom and more use to create unforgettable experiences.


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Kristi A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
0.0 out of 5
"Bandwidth's support is quite easily the worst I have encountered in tech!"
When working, Bandwidth is fine. It serves its purpose like any other company could do.
AN
Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great experience!"
A joy to work with. Punctual and expedient with anything I have ever asked of them.
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Service and support are top notch!"
Tech Support is top notch, tickets resolved quickly

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KA
Customer Success Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Bandwidth?

When working, Bandwidth is fine. It serves its purpose like any other company could do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

Their customer support is literally the worst I have ever come across! I am a customer success manager for a portfolio of customers and we utilize bandwidth for the clients to use sms within our flatform to support & run their businesses. We had a large group of customers whose sms suddenly went down with 0 warning or notice that they were out of compliance. That is not the worst. It has been 6 weeks and some of these customers are still down! Bandwidths support sometimes takes an entire week to respond and they are incredibly unhelpful. No matter how we try to help our customers by escalating, we cannot get a response. Bandwidth's support is quite easily the worst I have encountered in tech! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

Supposed to be helping our customers with SMS services through our platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laney Alspaugh of Bandwidth

Thank you for your feedback regarding your support experience, Kristi. We take these concerns seriously and would appreciate the chance to address them. Please reach out to Matt Ruehlen, Bandwidth’s Sr. Director, Service Ambassador at mruehlen@bandwidth.com, and we’ll work to provide the support you need.

PE
Chief Product Officer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Bandwidth?

Bandwidth is a true partner. For example, they are proactive about managing our services have notified us when we were approaching capacity and needed to add more. They have also collaborated with us when designing new redundancy features. Additionally, their portal is easy to use, making the services easy to administer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

In the last couple years our account managers have changed personnel more often than I would like (and not necessarily because people left the company -- they hadn't). We used to have a better cadence where we would discuss our account and to review their product roadmap. That has lacked consistency in recent times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bandwidth is a primary VoIP carrier for us. We also use their SMS product. We are considering others as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Bandwidth?

The Portal is one of the (If not THE) best in class fo any carrier I have worked with. The Account team support is also amazing and very responsive along with the response time on support tickets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

Pricing seems to be an ongoing discussion point and could use some real help, especially when talking about large TN/DID footprints. Multi $ porting fee and above average per minute rates are way above many wider market carriers and large turnoffs for a carrier with as much supply as BW. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a carrier to help with wider coverage of North Americas, BW helps everday to provide good VoIP services as well as end to end connectivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laney Alspaugh of Bandwidth

Thank you for letting us know about your positive experience with our portal and support team. Your input is important to us, and we’ll continue working to ensure we meet your needs.

ES
Chief Product Officer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Bandwidth?

We have had almost 20 years of exceptional service and quality experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

This is very difficult as I don't really have any negative opinions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use carrier service and porting. We have a 20 year relationship that has been very positive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JM
Director, Implementations
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Bandwidth?

The easy to use portal makes porting a breeze Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

Lack of ability to get a live person on the phone when needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

10DLC submissions. Helping to push these trough to ensure our clients are happy has been held Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Bandwidth?

Call Routing seems to work better than some of our other carriers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

The portal does not let you search for a Brand. It also times out when you have a lot of Brand pages you have to step through to find the one you are looking for, then you have to wait a couple minutes for it to start populating again.

You can't search numbers for port-outs.

Would be nice to have a link to get to search better for locations under numbers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

Have no idea what they are solving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Laney Alspaugh of Bandwidth

Thank you for taking time to let us know about your experience. Serving our customers well is a top priority, and we’re reviewing your concerns to ensure we provide the exceptional service we’re known for.

AN
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: In-app
What do you like best about Bandwidth?

Great Support. Bandwidth provides customers with great, timely and relevant information via good documentation and helpful webinars. Bandwidth really cares about its customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

Inflexibility with terms for small companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

Messaging and telephone numbers all managed via an api, making our capacity elastic.

Helps us avoid charges for services we do not need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AN
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: In-app
What do you like best about Bandwidth?

Like the portal, easy to get around and see my stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

Had a ticket on this --- was not able to assign SMS to one of MY numbers - because we had no campaigns - it was fixed the next day, but that was bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

Giving SMS apability to our customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AA
Director of Solution Engineering
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Bandwidth?

They've got a tremendous technical Team. They truly are a people first company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

Nothing so far. All our issues are addressed in a timely fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

They're providing innovating solutions that allow us to be competitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JO
EVP, Product development
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Bandwidth?

Customer support and quality of products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bandwidth?

We have to reach out to talk about better pricing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bandwidth solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping us navigate the 10DLC requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.