Thursday, 5 March, 2026
Microsoft launches communications API to compete with Twilio
By Basit Ansari
<p>Microsoft, at its Ignite conference, announced that its ready to compete with Twilio by launching communication APIs. Entitled Azure Communication Services, these API will allow developers to add voice and video calling, chat, text messages and old-school telephony to their apps. It is built on Azure and businesses can use it to deploy low latency global communication network used by MS Teams to support 5B+ meeting minutes daily.</p>
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