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From firsthand experience, yes, it works for unsolicited political party donation messages. Not 100% of the time, but way more than 0%. These wholesale carrier
by troydavis 3y ago
From firsthand experience, yes, it works for unsolicited political party donation messages. Not 100% of the time, but way more than 0%.
These wholesale carriers know that recipients will flag unsolicited political messages as spam (to the recipient's wireless provider), and they don't want consumer wireless providers to block or heavily rate-limit messages from their phone numbers. The political campaigns cycle through phone numbers, so their unsolicited messages can "taint" many phone numbers - which will affect other customers' campaigns. The wholesale carrier's incentives aren't perfectly aligned with your incentives, but they're not totally different.
- simfree 3y agoIt's also common practice to hard drop abusive campaigns that do not respond to STOP, HELP and similar keywords at the provider's SMSC, and just collect the revenue from them texting your clients. The 10DLC cartel wants to fine instances of unsolicited text messaging up to $20,000 per instance, hence why there is a big pushback against registering with this unsanctioned, not FCC mandated organization called The Carrier Registry (TCR). TCR has been a nightmare to work with for those that do participate in their bureaucracy. You fill out pages of forms with everything from EINs/SSNs to the owners and co-owners of the firm and exact examples of what they plan to text, then 6 months or so later the TCR says "Oh, sucks to be you, we're invalidating all current registered companies, pay $50 to register again and fill out entirely different forms! Also, T-Mobile is tacking on a new inactivity fee of $xx a month per business if your client doesn't message a T-Mobile number every few days :D"