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.
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_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.