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		wruza on April 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the ... I think the opposite is true: still quite high costs are the cause of SMS spam. If the carriers did not profit from this, they would have destroyed SMS spam as a phenomenon on the same day.

posguy on April 4, 2021 [–]

AT&T, Verizon, US Cellular and T-Mobile have all imposed fees on Application to Person SMSes, so they definitely are making more money off this: https://www.plivo.com/blog/a2p-10dlc/

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