> i hate getting business sms

The big mass senders can afford TCR compliance. I'm betting that's who you hate getting sms from. Well, you'll keep getting their SMS.

It's small biz who is hurt by TCR. Biz who are run by people you've met and talk to.

I do business with lots of local shops and often SMS is the best fit for us to talk to each other. Except now we can't.

That's who TCR is protecting us from.

Which big mass spammers are you thinking of? The only ones I can think of are political campaigns; scams obviously can’t be compliant at all. And even political campaigns are having to switch providers once or twice a year since they generate over 90% of spam reports and don’t actually bother with even opt-out compliance.

Any legitimate business that’s actually compliant will respect opt-outs and actually stop texting after a STOP, and I seriously doubt they would actually survive if they blasted away with unsolicited a2p texting these days.

I’d rather get an email from them. At least with email I have a multitude of spam detection and filtering tools that just don’t exist for SMS text messages.

I'm with you there. And TCR doesn't do a thing to stop that. Big corps just pay for a compliance officer and blast away.

Small biz who know their customers - this is who TCR stops.

The extreme majority of spam text messages I receive are not through email gateways. This will do nothing to reduce sms spam.

I thought that when businesses started using WhatsApp. I still think it