So I got this today from Bandwidth.com. A quick Google search yields no
announcements or news that I can see. A call to Bandwidth got me zero
information about how much this new "fee" will be on each number.
Anybody have any more in-depth information about this?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 14:43:24
Subject: Upcoming Fees for Text Enabled Telephone Numbers
Valued Bandwidth SMS / Messaging Customers,
We want to take this opportunity to inform you of some changes taking
place in the SMS messaging industry. These changes will impact the fees
associated with your account.
The messaging industry is implementing a new monthly subscription fee
for each text-enabled number. These fees will be issued by central
registries (NetNumber and Somos (formerly SMS/800)) to which carriers
and messaging providers (including Bandwidth) send records for message
routing purposes.
We anticipate that these central registries will begin invoicing
Bandwidth for these monthly fees as soon as January 2016. Bandwidth is
developing tools (GUI and API) to empower our customers to manage these
costs by enabling or disabling messaging based upon individual
telephone numbers. When Bandwidth deploys these tools, we will also
begin to apply the appropriate monthly fee associated with messaging
services.
In preparation for these changes, please contact Bandwidth at
xxx-xxx-xxxx by 11/20/2015, so we can provide you additional
information and applicable paperwork, if any, for this new service.
Thank you for your business,Bandwidth
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