Sounds more like a consumer protection TOC than censorship. Phishing, smishing, and 'social engineering (targeting people to manipulate individuals to reveal private information....") and so on.
Frankly I'm tired of getting such scams on my phone too and I wish my carrier would deal with them. This should only concern wealthy Nigerian princes and those scamming call centers in Calcutta.
No. They have no rights to impose fines for content. Run don’t walk away from them. If their content is such that it violates these terms due to it being unlawful, there are remedies under the law. This is censorship beginnings.
This is exactly it. The tweet makes it sound like it was network traffic, this is a fee for delivering improper SMS/messages/calls.
There are a lot of rules (under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 and later laws) that deal with anti-spoofing, anti-spam, junk faxes, etc.
Unfortunately, most of the spam with spoofed numbers originates outside the US, so is difficult to track down.
Clarification: bandwidth.com is T-Mobile US' wholesale call center calling/texting services, which is exactly what a call center (legitimate or scammers) would use, hence the need for fines. The fines likely come about due to the expense of the telecoms having to track down and stop the spam/bad messages.
Sounds more like a consumer protection TOC than censorship. Phishing, smishing, and 'social engineering (targeting people to manipulate individuals to reveal private information....") and so on.
Frankly I'm tired of getting such scams on my phone too and I wish my carrier would deal with them. This should only concern wealthy Nigerian princes and those scamming call centers in Calcutta.
Did you read the 500 dollar fine? Or the $1,000 fine? did you just read the $2,000 fine
Yes of course I did.... still sounds like consumer protection from scammers etc.
No. They have no rights to impose fines for content. Run don’t walk away from them. If their content is such that it violates these terms due to it being unlawful, there are remedies under the law. This is censorship beginnings.
Hmmm, maybe I'll reconsider my position, thanks.
This is exactly it. The tweet makes it sound like it was network traffic, this is a fee for delivering improper SMS/messages/calls.
There are a lot of rules (under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 and later laws) that deal with anti-spoofing, anti-spam, junk faxes, etc.
Unfortunately, most of the spam with spoofed numbers originates outside the US, so is difficult to track down.
Clarification: bandwidth.com is T-Mobile US' wholesale call center calling/texting services, which is exactly what a call center (legitimate or scammers) would use, hence the need for fines. The fines likely come about due to the expense of the telecoms having to track down and stop the spam/bad messages.
This has been in their Code of Conduct for a while, they're just going to start charging fines for violations. Here's an archive of their CoC from 2021, section 5 is where these restrictions are discussed: https://web.archive.org/web/20211006152618/https://www.t-mobile.com/support/public-files/attachments/T-Mobile%20Code%20of%20Conduct.pdf