This is an interesting post and surprisingly, there is no replies to that so far. Here's a description of NetNumber's GDS service which could be what Bandwidth refers to: "The NetNumber GDS registry service provides North American MVNO-OTT registry data for accurate routing of text messages in the North American messaging ecosystem. The registry supports 160 million subscriber entries, provides 30 million updates per month, and identifies more than 500 messaging service providers. The NetNumber GDS carrier-ID lookup service is used by more than 150 service providers to support the accurate routing of both voice calls and text messages globally. A query to this service returns a portability-corrected carrier ID called an NNID, or NetNumber ID, that uniquely identifies the service provider for a particular dialed number. The service also supports global portability correction, global code-range data, and North American MVNO-OTT override data for text messaging." Is there an alternative to NetNumber and Somos ? Anyone can shed some light on how global SMS routing actually works and where resides the SMS/MMS routing information data in this so called "North American messaging ecosystem" ? On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> 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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