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Nothing in what I posted was about solicitation.

It's about years of routine communication between a business and it's own customers that stops. Like my clients who had to stop providing product support over SMS - even tho that what their customers prefer.

It's about I can't send or receive texts from my personal numbers to anyone because my MNVO carrier can't afford the cash and ceaseless headaches that TCR impose.

SMS spam continues to flow. Legit traffic is cut off unless the ransom is paid.



If you have a real business you can’t afford to get a cell phone from a major carrier?


If employees are all using softphones (like my client), purchasing cell phones for each employee adds expense and the complication of a 2nd phone number.

Expense and complexity are also the primary problems with TCR.


Well actually I know a little something about this. One of my specialties within the AWS consulting space is implementing Amazon Connect call centers solutions that involve SMS.

It takes awhile. But I’ve never had a customer complain about SMS messages going through

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/sms-nu...

And this was the original use case I was referring to

> It's about I can't send or receive texts from my personal numbers to anyone because my MNVO carrier can't afford the cash and ceaseless headaches that TCR impose


Every business demands my phone number now, some even make it the primary identifier for accounts.

Meanwhile there are zero businesses that need to send me an SMS.


> It's about I can't send or receive texts from my personal numbers to anyone

You have a mobile phone plan from which you can’t send SMS?


Subscription, not plan but yes.




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