{
  "id": "POL-152",
  "slug": "pol-152",
  "title": "The SMS terms must be findable rather than buried",
  "statement": "The SMS terms must be near the top of the document or reachable by their own anchor, not buried inside terms about other services.",
  "rationale": "CTIA and T-Mobile both treat consent details buried in unrelated terms as a consent defect rather than a formatting one, because a consumer who cannot find the terms has not been told what they are agreeing to. The usual shape is a fifty-clause commercial ToS with the messaging paragraph at clause 34, which is compliant on a word count and useless to a reader.",
  "layer": "POLICY_PAGE",
  "layerSlug": "policy-page",
  "object": "SMS terms section position and anchor",
  "severity": "HIGH",
  "detectability": [
    "AI_FORM",
    "CRAWL"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_POLICY",
  "artifact": "sms_terms",
  "authorities": [
    "CTIA",
    "T-Mobile",
    "Twilio",
    "Bandwidth",
    "AWS",
    "Telnyx"
  ],
  "codes": [
    {
      "provider": "Twilio",
      "code": "30909",
      "remediable": true,
      "generation": "gen2"
    }
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Give the messaging section its own anchor and link that anchor from the opt-in, or publish the terms as their own page. Done when the registered link lands the reader on the messaging terms rather than at the top of a long document.",
  "example": "terms_and_conditions_url: https://acmecoffee.com/terms#sms — the link lands on the messaging section itself.",
  "notes": "Absorbs POL-153, which states the same findability requirement as a prohibition on burying opt-in details in unrelated terms. Severity divergence in the catalog: CTIA, Telnyx and Bandwidth grade the buried-consent form BLOCKING; that stricter form lives in the consent-surface layer, and this is the document-side variant, kept at HIGH.",
  "catalogIds": [
    "POL-153"
  ],
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-152/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/policy-page/pol-152.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}