This really seems like something the FCC should be enforcing… T-Mobile has no authority to make anyone pay fines… Terms of Service are not legally binding like that. All they can do is refuse service, and report the activity if it’s actually illegal.
When you replace government regulations with self regulating corporation, this is the best we can hope for I guess.
…yes they do. This is for vendors that use/enter into a business relationship with T-Mobile directly to send short codes or SMS. I.e. companies like Vonage and Twilio.
You can absolutely enforce fees against your direct customers for certain behaviors.
This would not work for messages received from other telcos
FCC is kind of a joke. Corp tells them what to do. If FCC did what it’s meant to do, we wouldn’t have such crap mobile and Internet infrastructure, terrible privacy policies, etc etc.
Cost of doing business. T-Mobile just demanding a slice of the action
Per message? Or just per “incident”?
How does a company fine someone?
they ask nicely for money
We need to kill phone numbers like, yesterday. It’s too hard to change a phone number.
We need a way to give a unique number to everyone, record who we gave them to, enforce that only they can use it, and burn them at any time.
From what I’ve heard, it’s very easy to change your phone number on T-Mobile.
Good luck getting all your 2FA changed on all your accounts. Good luck updating all your friends and family. Good luck informing every company you do business with.
You act like those aren’t the reasons my number is getting changed.
IMHO, you shouldn’t use your phone number for 2FA anyways.
I agree, but usually don’t have an option.
Fair ig.
I avoid this wherever possible, because the only reason to do it is to track you more. It’s expensive and more complicated to set up than app 2fa which is free to operate.
Looks like a USA problem.
Idk about 2FA, but updating friends and family is insanely easy on most messaging platforms. I can update my phone number and then WhatsApp or Telegram will prompt those who chat with me that I’ve changed my number and they can switch to that number for chatting.
WhatsApp:
Notice received when the number is changed on WhatsApp:
Telegram:
As for contacting businesses, this seems like a personal situation, since I contact companies via the above messaging apps. So they will receive a notification about my updated number.
I’ll verify if this is optional, so we can choose if people get that notice…
Edit:
You can’t specify who gets informed. If you’ve blocked someone, they will not get that notification.
I’ve also added images above to demonstrate how it works on the two platforms I mentioned.
Spam callers don’t seem to care what number they’re dialing.
Fair point.
Is this per message, or…?
