Finally got the fee documentation. There is $0.01 being added per DID per month for SMS-enabled DIDs, but this fee is a new one: $0.09 (!) per Toll Free Number per month for SMS. Whoa... where did that come from? Anyone know? Why is TF 9x higher than DIDs? Beckman On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Peter Beckman wrote:
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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