[VoiceOps] AT&T Verizon to block text messaging

[Alex Balashov]

There are lots of extremely legitimate applications for A2P, such as appointment reminders, notifications that laundry is done, our network outage monitoring system. If that went away, it would just move to some other table over the top platform.

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> On Mar 6, 2021, at 11:26 AM, John Levine <johnl at taugh.com> wrote:
> 
> In article <alpine.BSF.2.20.2103051141560.46257 at nog2.angryox.com> you write:
>> Spotify is a terrible example. People listen to one song at a time, and
>> choose the songs they listen to.
>> 
>> Unwanted A2P SMS is more akin to unwanted commercial mail.
> 
> It is also, for anyone who hasn't been paying attention, completely illegal.
> 
> I expect my opinion is not unusual that if the only way to get rid of illegal unwanted A2P
> is to get rid of A2P altogether, that would be fine with me.
> 
> R's,
> John
> 
> 
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