Hmmm ... I think the July 5 deadline is specifically for UK recipients ?
Regardless, your overall impression is correct: Twilio is no longer a hacker/hobbyist/enthusiast option as you cannot (by the letter of the law, at least) send SMS without registering your business entity:
This is very troublesome to me because I have built my own personal telco out of twilio functions and twiml bins, etc., and am heavily reliant on all manner of SMS workflows.
As of this writing (2023-05-27) everything - even SMS delivery to T-Mobile numbers - continues to "just work" but it sounds like I will just wake up one morning to have it all broken ...
> • Effective July 5, 2023, all 10DLC phone numbers used to send SMS and MMS messages to U.S. phone numbers must be fully registered to an approved campaign under your brand. Messages sent using unregistered phone numbers will be subject to a gradual increase of message blocking by Twilio, beginning on July 5, 2023, ultimately leading to a full block of all unregistered U.S.-bound messages sent after August 31, 2023.
Regardless, your overall impression is correct: Twilio is no longer a hacker/hobbyist/enthusiast option as you cannot (by the letter of the law, at least) send SMS without registering your business entity:
https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1593384850073214976?lang...
This is very troublesome to me because I have built my own personal telco out of twilio functions and twiml bins, etc., and am heavily reliant on all manner of SMS workflows.
As of this writing (2023-05-27) everything - even SMS delivery to T-Mobile numbers - continues to "just work" but it sounds like I will just wake up one morning to have it all broken ...