Some important extra context on these fines. 1. They apply to only to messaging gateways for sending mass messaging campaigns, not consumers. 2. This is part

Some important extra context on these fines. 1. They apply to only to messaging gateways for sending mass messaging campaigns, not consumers. 2. This is part of a long running industry process (since at least 2020) for reducing the abuse of SMS messaging in U.S. for the purposes of spam and phishing. 3. T-Mobiles “Code of Conduct” has existed since November 2020. 4. These new fines are just the latest set of fines for abusing messaging services. Since 2020 a number of fines have been introduced, but they’ve focused initially on simple technical violations (sending mass messages without properly registering your source number, or properly registering your campaign). 5. Reading around, it seems industry players are expecting these violations to be detected via customer complaints, rather than actual scanning messages. It seems the networks don’t have the infrastructure or the interest is mass scanning messages. But if they see unusual levels of complaints from customers, associated with a specific gateway or campaign, then they’ll manually review customer complaints, associated messages and issue the appropriate fines to originating gateway. TL;DR if you’re not mass sending SMS via A2P (application to person) platforms, this has zero impact on. Except you should start getting less spam.