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T-Mobile silently drops every text from my personal numbers, thanks to The Campaign Registry, a T-Mobile led org. This is a wide reaching issue; the article doe

T-Mobile silently drops every text from my personal numbers, thanks to The Campaign Registry, a T-Mobile led org. This is a wide reaching issue; the article does a disservice by not addressing it. Because if T-Mobile is gatekeeping this text-over-sat route, it'll be another network that silently drops our texts. Any evidence to the contrary would be welcome.

Dylan16807 2y ago
What does "thanks to The Campaign Registry" mean? Why are they involved? Are those texts automated?
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
  > What does "thanks to The Campaign Registry" mean? It means The Campaign Registry is the full reason why my texts are silently dropped. ref:https://old.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/107omsg/lets_talk_about_telecoms_clear_racket_tcr/ https://old.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/107omsg/lets_talk_abo... > Why are they involved? Because they can be. Ostensibly, it's a T-Mobile-led effort to reduce levels of SMS spam. It does this by forcing commercial entities to register or else their SMS are silently dropped. In reality TCR is a system that blocks SMS traffic inappropriately and broadly. This last bit includes traffic from telecom providers like mine (that compete with wireless carriers). TCR does this (astoundingly) by lumping smaller telecoms with mass marketers. It's the sort of anti-competitive behavior that an ethical and capable FCC would look into - eventually. Past that, TCR is onerous, expensive and unpredictable. It puts small-biz thru big-corp-sized hoops and will endlessly reject legit applications with little recourse. Small local shops have to pay-to-play & traverse the onboarding ordeal - or else they're fully blocked from texting their customers. Period. > Are those texts automated? No. They're routine texts I manually send from my personal numbers. Except to T-Mobile lines.
mlindner 2y ago
How is your personal issue on an unrelated topic relevant to the article? I understand you're having personal difficulties but I've never even heard of this issue and more sounds like a simple mistake that can be addressed by talking to T-Mobile.
- inetknght 2y ago
  > I've never even heard of this issue and more sounds like a simple mistake that can be addressed by talking to T-Mobile I've had T-Mobile for too long. It would frequently drop SMS until I purchased a new phone. The problem went away after then. New problems came about. Not being able to log in to their website using Firefox in Private Mode, for example. Not to mention many frequent other types of privacy violations. Too bad other carriers don't have service here. I'd drop T-Mobile in a heartbeat.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
  > but I've never even heard of this issue I would expand this to say that TCR is an expensive, problematic and wide ranging issue. I accept that it is an issue you have never heard of.

Dylan16807 2y ago

What does "thanks to The Campaign Registry" mean? Why are they involved? Are those texts automated?

WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
> What does "thanks to The Campaign Registry" mean? It means The Campaign Registry is the full reason why my texts are silently dropped. ref:https://old.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/107omsg/lets_talk_about_telecoms_clear_racket_tcr/ https://old.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/107omsg/lets_talk_abo... > Why are they involved? Because they can be. Ostensibly, it's a T-Mobile-led effort to reduce levels of SMS spam. It does this by forcing commercial entities to register or else their SMS are silently dropped. In reality TCR is a system that blocks SMS traffic inappropriately and broadly. This last bit includes traffic from telecom providers like mine (that compete with wireless carriers). TCR does this (astoundingly) by lumping smaller telecoms with mass marketers. It's the sort of anti-competitive behavior that an ethical and capable FCC would look into - eventually. Past that, TCR is onerous, expensive and unpredictable. It puts small-biz thru big-corp-sized hoops and will endlessly reject legit applications with little recourse. Small local shops have to pay-to-play & traverse the onboarding ordeal - or else they're fully blocked from texting their customers. Period. > Are those texts automated? No. They're routine texts I manually send from my personal numbers. Except to T-Mobile lines.

mlindner 2y ago

How is your personal issue on an unrelated topic relevant to the article? I understand you're having personal difficulties but I've never even heard of this issue and more sounds like a simple mistake that can be addressed by talking to T-Mobile.

inetknght 2y ago
> I've never even heard of this issue and more sounds like a simple mistake that can be addressed by talking to T-Mobile I've had T-Mobile for too long. It would frequently drop SMS until I purchased a new phone. The problem went away after then. New problems came about. Not being able to log in to their website using Firefox in Private Mode, for example. Not to mention many frequent other types of privacy violations. Too bad other carriers don't have service here. I'd drop T-Mobile in a heartbeat.
WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
> but I've never even heard of this issue I would expand this to say that TCR is an expensive, problematic and wide ranging issue. I accept that it is an issue you have never heard of.