Megaphone has disabled sending sms with an alphabetic addressee

From today, MegaFon unilaterally blocked the sending of messages from letter senders for SMS services. At the moment, messages to the Megafon network reach only from number senders.



As I understand from a conversation with a representative, SMS services quickly switch to direct sending channels to Megaphone and with this sauce they drastically increase the cost for sending a message to this operator. In the future, I do not exclude that the other operators will do the same.

In principle, if the sender has a digital number, the SMS leaves, but with large volumes of messages, these numbers will clearly be blocked.



On the one hand, it is nice that they are starting to fight with sms-spammers, on the other - as always in Russia, everything starts with an “ax on the neck”, as a result, not only spammers but also honest services fall under the distribution.



_{Ps. A separate “ray of good” of smstraffic, which did not even bother to warn its client about this situation, despite assurances in its letters that “We are ready to guarantee uninterrupted delivery of messages to subscribers of any networks regardless of changes in their policy of working with SMS traffic aggregators ". How did ...}