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"The words" are probably nested templates so that at the level of input it's hard to really understand what the completed end result looks like. Also, there's many well-intentioned people in tech doing stuff that's just a tiny bit too complex for them to execute by themselves without a buddy or a reviewer. There are also whole teams and departments at big enterprises where someone might not be doing it alone, and they might also not be completely incompetent, making them the star engineer on the team, while everyone else wisely keeps their mouths shut since they surely don't have anything to contribute to the process. All the really good people that worked there, were snatched up by some fancy, greenfield project, on another floor, or got a position on some elite "refactoring team", surely not wasting their time on updating templates.


Someone, a single concrete specific individual, must actually sign off on it and/or authorize it with the SMS service provider.


Not everywhere requires bulk SMS to use an authorised template.


Everywhere that I know of requires a real, specific, individual to sign off on the purchase order, charge it to their card, send the bill to accounts payables, etc...


That's not what GP was saying?

Whether or not the provider makes the customer pay with a credit card has no impact on if the provider requires templated SMS messages.


I'm saying it. There is a specific individual that had to approve it, somewhere, somehow, even if that's not true for the 'template'.




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