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Think about it: what other industry or company do you know of that charges you for service every month but you cannot start using the service for four months? Go ahead, I will give you a few minutes.

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 ...

Hackers sent text messages to users from trusted SMS numbers, referencing nonexistent transactions and directing them to call ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Twitter has added official support for two of the largest satellite telephone operators, Thuraya and Iridium. Now ...

Raise your hand if you hate getting text messages from shady businesses you have no relationship with. Now consider whether your business uses text messaging to communicate with your customers. Are ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reporter who covers the politics and power influencing the tech industry. Before joining The Verge in 2018, ...

Many Web sites and apps now offer two-factor authentication (2FA), which requires you to enter a short numeric code—the so-called second factor—in addition 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 ...

Premium messaging providers are NOT public interest groups.... I'd like to know what in the public interest, other than premiuim messaging, is in the public interest of allowing short codes I think ...

RALEIGH – Bandwidth, a provider of communication services that went public late last year, is rolling out a new messaging service that the company says is a “powerful alternative” to standard short ...

This doesn't mean they would close down texting? Right? I mean they couldn't. But could someone explain in a nut shell what this means. I can't make since of it. Thanks. Premium text messages work ...