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by aeonsky 2267 days ago
If its something requested, the user can always re-request it. If it not something requested like news, use two different providers to send 2 messages. One the actual content, and then a minute later, a different smaller message saying "This message brought to you buy MyCompany. Please text back STOP to stop messages or AGAIN to get the latest alert again." Some end users might get better delivery results with a specific texting service, so it might be useful to set service affinities on a user specific basis.
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You must be kidding. This never happened to me so far, but if it did, I would be so unhappy with YourCompany that probably would never buy anything from you again
You understand that OP is requesting a solution for a practically unfixable issue. Unless you a have relationship with the carrier itself. A provider sends you a success, but it was actually a failure. Imagine a DB sending Commit-OK, but data was never written. You probably wouldn’t buy very much from a company that uses that kind of DB as well, since it loses your orders.

Once again, if you are receiving texts that must mean you opted into them. User is expecting them and it’s different from a user receiving two texts never having signed up for them.

I do believe this technique uses some out of the box thinking and mostly DOES solve OPs problem.