T-Mobile recently informed companies who use short codes to connect with T-Mobile customers that the process for code approval is going to change. The good news is that there is now an option to speed ...

Texting scams are exploding. In 2024 alone, U.S. consumers lost $470 million to them, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a number more than five times what it was just four years earlier. To ...

A new study claims that the industry average for an SMS text message response from a common short code was approximately 9 seconds. The fastest common short code responded in less than 6 seconds and ...

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Public Knowledge led Free Press, Consumer Federation of America, and others in submitting a petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a Declaratory Ruling stating that text messages ...