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Eventually airlines will just whitelist IP ranges for free messaging-only access.

• unixfox 1y ago
  Almost impossible task. The public IPs change every time. Usually they are on CDN that have a very large IP range. And if they allow large IP ranges, one could try to spin up a virtual machine on the same cloud provider as the messaging platform.
  • Nextgrid 1y ago
    > Almost impossible task Except if the messengers happily collude with you, which Facebook does - they have a website (can't remember the link) where network providers can get IP ranges and other information to enable "zero rating" for Facebook's properties.
    • lokar 1y ago
      Or even provide proxies to run on the airline network
    • toast0 1y ago
      FWIW, if my information isn't outdated, FB requires users of the mobile partner portal to be actual mobile networks; airlines are not invited. I worked on this for WhatsApp before I left in 2019, and the airline text only free messaging did not fit with the WhatsApp special pricing/zero rating offering. Afaik, FB doesn't work with airlines on these offerings; the offerings started before I left and were a surprise to me when I was still informed about all the partners (because I had to add them to mailing lists and do other integration work)