I would like advice from this thread as a lot of this applies to me. I run a PBX and use Twilio. I used to use their SMS gateway until this nonsense started.
We have some mobile phones. I can send and receive SMS messages on them with no problem. But on my home landline phone, which is under Twilio, I am now blocked.
I’m supposed to register a campaign and all that stuff and pay a fee. Why?
Why don’t I have to register a campaign on my t-mobile handheld phone?
What the hell kind of “campaign” and “business” to I need to be able to send a quick text message to my wife who is out shopping?
I gave up and started telling people just don’t use SMS, but then I saw this thread and it opened old wounds.
Twilio has no option for a family like ours to just send simple SMS messages (like I did for 10 years prior). I even opened a ticket with them and they were clueless. So I setup a sole proprietorship and registered tax numbers and starting filing all this useless garbage to satisfy their bureaucracy, but I’m pretty fed up at this point.
Again, I’m not a corporation, I’m a dad. I don’t have a campaign. What the hell.