Inteliquent, VoIP Innovations, etc. have been demanding brand/campaign registration for at least a full month now for any messages to process.
The reseller only needs to have a account with TCR. Then you can register on your clients behalf their brands and campaigns. IQNT and VI are charging $50 per brand if you want to go through them. Not all campaigns are $10. Some can be a lot more... like for political campaigns. Low-volume mixed, which all of my customers fall into, costs $4 per month if you are purchasing from TCR direct. IQNT does all of our SMS/MMS... for both toll (now called 10DLC) and toll free numbers. Most also allow third party registration... so you can have numbers with other carriers and just do SMS/MMS with them for instance. photograph Daniel White Co-Founder phone: +1 (702) 470-2770 direct:+1 (702) 470-2766 > Peter Beckman <mailto:beck...@angryox.com> > February 15, 2022 at 21:23 > Yep. > > Their "Business SMS limitations and restrictions" is really just a > high-level copy of the CTIA Best Practices for P2P. > > Anything outside of that is A2P, and it is clear that RingCentral is > offloading any required brand registration to their end users and > directing > them to The Campaign Registry (TSC) for which, as the OP pointed out, > $200 > to get an account, and $10 per month per DID for a "campaign." > > The goal here is to make sending business-related SMS as difficult and as > costly as possible because carriers spent too much time and money > policing > bad actors who abused the openness of SMS. > > You wanna send an SMS from outside the US Wireless Carrier Cabal (e.g. > T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, US Mobile, US Cellular and the smaller wireless > carriers that own their own infrastructure)? You gotta pay. > > > This kills SMS forwarding. This kills the ability for a small business, > like a laudromat, sending "Your laundry is done" messages to their > customers via SMS, because now instead of being included in their plan, > because they are sending as a business, even only 50-100 per month, their > send/receive ratio is bad, and thus blocked by A2P CTIA Rules. > > Now the laudromat must front $200 for the privilege PLUS spend $10/month > PLUS like $0.02 or more per SMS. 100 SMS messages costs them $12/month > ignoring the initial "brand registration" malarkey. > > > What the email says below, as I read it Brandon, is "hey we're including > SMS in your plan" and then adding "you're responsible for registering > with > TSC but we aren't going to mention THOSE costs to you or what happens if > you don't register." > > I hate it all. It feels smarmy, like a lazy way to put a money barrier > up. > > If registration with TCR was free, and the cost per month per DID was > related to your sending volume, I would feel better about it. > > As it stands now, it's stupid, and hurts the small businesses and the big > businesses will keep doing whatever they want because it doesn't hurt > them > at all, and the spammers/scammers will likely continue to do it and just > find holes in TCRs process or find carriers that aren't doing the right > thing and exploit them. > > Beckman > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022, Brandon Svec via VoiceOps wrote: > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Peter Beckman > Internet Guy > beck...@angryox.com > https://www.angryox.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > VoiceOps@voiceops.org > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > VoiceOps@voiceops.org > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > Brandon Svec via VoiceOps <mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org> > February 15, 2022 at 16:21 > RingCentral started sending messages like this today. I suppose > others may follow? > > Hello, > > We are writing to let you know about an upcoming change to SMS that’s > affecting the entire industry. Recently, mobile carriers have begun > treating all SMS from businesses large and small as commercial > messaging. The mobile industry has added new registration > requirements, and additional fees for sending and receiving SMS. > They’ve also imposed new policies that we have summarized here > <https://info.ringcentral.com/MDc1LURUQi03MTUAAAGCng7lt0vfsF5No4RhXgM826_pR9JaNgxfWelHAco-V1MrXVbXWVKPTvTyMrn4Tlk3poqlP30=>. > > > We have been working with the carriers to address these changes, > increase the deliverability of your SMS messages, and help protect you > from potential carrier fines. > > To accomplish this, we have reinvisioned domestic SMS, and are excited > to launch our RingCentral Enhanced Business SMS solution with new > pricing and a number of monthly free SMS messages starting March 17, > 2022.* *With our new pricing most customers, including yourself, are > expected to be covered by these monthly allowances.* > > In January, your company used an estimated 1746 messages of the 8000 > included with your plan. Once this allowance is exhausted, you will be > charged a transparent, flat rate of $0.0085 per SMS message sent or > received, and $0.013 per MMS sent or received. For example, if you > send 100 SMS messages above your allowance, you would only pay 85¢. > > To help save your company more money, we also offer bulk prepaid SMS > at a discounted rate if you need to send more. > > You can learn more about these changes and how allowances are > calculated by scheduling a meeting with your sales representative, > or reading more here > <https://info.ringcentral.com/MDc1LURUQi03MTUAAAGCng7ltiq_e8c9C-iH9ro86naWms7maamahCdRf0TbZdf47Fu_9s1oXxqVweVEnWsObxMOII8=>. > > > > *Customers may also be required to register individual brand and/or > campaign information with The Campaign Registry (the mobile carriers’ > preferred hub for managing SMS campaigns), which may result in > additional fees. > > *Brandon Svec* > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > VoiceOps@voiceops.org > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > Nate Burke <mailto:n...@blastcomm.com> > November 15, 2021 at 13:24 > Sorry if this was already discussed and I missed it. I saw a notice > on our Voip Innovations account today that any business DID's that > send SMS messages to a consumer in any way now have to be registered > with 'Campaignregistry.com' Looks like this requires a $200 signup, > and then potentially $10/month/DID. Anyone already gone through > this? Talking to VI, it seems they're not even sure, but it's a VI > requirement to be registered by Dec 15. > > The whole process seems confusing. VI Makes it seem like > non-compliance will be expensive. $10,000/violation keeps being > referenced. > > Would each one of my customers be considered a separate campaign at > $10/month? > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > VoiceOps@voiceops.org > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
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