Re: [VoiceOps] AT&T Verizon to block text messaging

2021-03-06 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >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. Yes, I know. If they

Re: [VoiceOps] AT&T Verizon to block text messaging

2021-03-06 Thread Alexander Lopez
Probably splitting hairs here but how is a2p and p2p differentiated? Some of our small businesses clients use a text 2 email gateway so they can communicate with customers? Its not an automated system that is responding but a person. Can we assume that any text enabled TN that does not terminat

Re: [VoiceOps] AT&T Verizon to block text messaging

2021-03-06 Thread 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. — Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevi

Re: [VoiceOps] AT&T Verizon to block text messaging

2021-03-06 Thread John Levine
In article 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 u