Say that carriers, not CTIA, enforce the non-sharing language
The requirementstatement
The product should disclose that the SMS non-sharing language is a carrier and TCR requirement rather than a CTIA one.
- Severityseverity
- MediumMEDIUMUsually survives review, but lowers your trust score or invites a manual look you would rather avoid.
- When it bitesphase
- Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
- What is checkedobject
- product export disclosure copy
- Where it liveslayer
- Policy pagesPOLICY_PAGE
- How Ekas settles itdetectability
- Human checkHUMAN
- Only someone holding the document or making the call can settle it. Ekas tells you exactly what to look at.
- What the fix involvesfailureClass
- Supply evidenceTERMINAL_EVIDENCE
- Needs proof only you hold: a screenshot, a recording, a scan of the form people signed.
- Who requires itauthorities
- TCR
- When it appliesapplicabilityText
- Applies to every 10DLC registration.
Why this rule existsrationale
How to fix itremediation
State the attribution where the clause is generated: carriers and TCR require it, CTIA does not. Done when a user who checks the CTIA handbook and finds nothing still understands why the clause is there.
Check this yourselfattestation
No tool can settle this one for you. Here is the check, and what wrong looks like.
Does whoever decides whether to publish the non-sharing clause know that carriers and TCR require it, and CTIA does not?
- 1State the attribution where the clause is generated.
- 2Done when someone who checks the CTIA handbook, finds nothing, and comes back still understands why the clause is there.
What wrong looks like: Industry guidance attributes the clause to CTIA, the business goes to the source to check, finds nothing, concludes the requirement is invented — and deletes the sentence.
Notesnotes
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POL-251 is one of 157 policy pages rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.