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The problem is, globally you cannot know before is this a premium number or not for some random provider in some random country, so what happens is you send the sms and then bill the number.

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If my provider can prevent me I'm sure the tech companies with millions in funding can figure it out. Block anything that doesn't comply. I figured this was solved, aren't there SaaS companies with deals all over the world for texts already? If not there's an opportunity. I'm sure it's cheaper than $60M to have full-time employees vet the numbers and new providers showing up.

Did you not click parent link to this thread?

Twilio (the main SaaS company that does this) doesn't have a good solution here

Looking in that parent link it looks like they do, but it's not a default setting

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/08/introducing-max-price.ht...

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