Signals vs direct carrier integration
Add calling to your software, connect an AI agent or automate a business workflow.
Signals provides programmable call control, events and Nigerian network connectivity, so your developers can focus on what the application should do.
Why use Signals?
Going direct can look attractive: lower rates, more control and fewer intermediaries. But the connection still needs software and people around it. Signals provides the voice platform and telecom operations your team would otherwise have to assemble or source.
Your team keeps control
Product logic. AI. Business workflows. Customer experience.
Your team assembles and coordinates
Carrier supplies the agreed connectivity
Signals provides and operates the voice platform
One operated platform
Managed connections to Nigerian phone networks
Carrier packages vary; compare what is included. Recording, capacity and service levels are agreed for your Signals deployment.
Explore the operating model →Even with a carrier such as MTN, your launch needs more than an introduction.
With Signals, explore the APIs today and discuss your build with the team behind the platform.
Direct carrier integration
Connect the carrier interface to the call-control, event and recording tools you build or select.
With Signals
Build against documented voice APIs, call control and webhooks. Put your effort into the application behaviour.
Direct carrier integration
Your team owns monitoring, isolates faults across the systems and coordinates fixes with the carrier.
With Signals
Signals monitors the voice platform and network performance, investigates service issues and coordinates carrier escalation.
Direct carrier integration
Each additional carrier brings a relationship, provisioning process and integration to manage.
With Signals
Manage numbers from multiple providers in one account. Choose the originating number for each call.
Direct carrier integration
Your team builds and maintains the abstraction that makes carrier-specific work reusable.
With Signals
Reuse call logic across products and deployments, including compatible components when expanding with Twilio.
Direct carrier integration
Carrier charges plus software, integration, maintenance and the people operating the service.
With Signals
Published platform and call pricing, with additional deployment requirements scoped upfront.
Any saving on minutes has to outweigh the cost of building and running the rest. Include the engineering time before launch, the systems you need to buy and the people who will maintain integrations and investigate failed calls.
Carrier charges + Build and integration + Ongoing operations = Total cost
Base plan
₦500,000/year + VAT
Includes one number and five simultaneous calls.
Outgoing calls
₦14–₦19.50/min
Across networks in Nigeria. VAT included. Billed per second.
Signals SIP Access, our managed SIP trunking service, and enterprise requirements are scoped separately.
See pricing →Share your proposed architecture or carrier quote. We’ll help you identify:
An idea, an architecture sketch or a carrier proposal is enough to start.