As of April 29th, Nixle will only be available to the City of Melissa for emergency communications due to a new paid structure. 

Nixle will continue to offer a Basic, no cost option for emergencies only, all other uses will now be offered under a Premium fee-based service.  At this time due to cost, the City has chosen not to participate in the Premium service and therefore will only have access to the Basic service. 

We apologize for those that have utilized this service and encourage you to sign up for one of the many other no cost communications avenues such as facebook, twitter, and e-news for the latest information from the City of Melissa.  Please see the Press Release below for more details.

Nixle Maintains Free Service and Expands Product Offering
Friday, March 10, 2011

The proliferation of Nixle across the United States has resulted in an unprecedented demand for capacity and new functionality. Nixle currently provides its free commercial grade text-based notification platform to almost 5,000 agencies across all 50 states and last month (February 2011) processed and paid for over 2,000,000 text messages on behalf of its clients. In order to be able to continue to provide a free service, Nixle is now rolling out additional paid plans that incorporate some of its existing functionality plus upcoming exciting new releases.

While Nixle continues its commitment to provide a free emergency notification system to all agencies, the Company now offers "Nixle One Source," a Total Solution package that includes Nixle Dial (Nixle's dialing platform), Nixle InterConnect and the Nixle Premium Text package. Nixle is offering this inclusive package to its existing clients at a price that is below their existing Single Solution, helping them save money on other disconnected technologies they are currently paying for.

Nixle continues to be invaluable to many people. Just this week, our free Nixle Plan has helped locate a child in Paulding County, Georgia who went missing. It is for this reason (and many other similar instances that can be found by searching Nixle in Google News) that Nixle will continue to provide a free emergency mass notification service and why it needs to start generating revenues in order to do so.

We look forward to the continued success we have had with our clients regardless of whichever plan, free or otherwise, they decide works in the best interest of notifying their public.