[drtillberg]

For SaaS like Strava or something, I'm agnostic whether the notice should come before the shut-off alleging a TOS violation. For cellular service though, SMS is integral to life. 911 even accepts SMS. Imagine T-Mobile silently dropping 911 SMS communications because someone texted the wrong word? Which isn't even in the TOS?

This is like dangling chum in the water, waiting for a big shark to chomp your leg, T-Mobile and whatever individual engineer came up with this.

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Did anyone allege that sending SMS to 911 was affected?

[edoceo]

No, we were just asked to imagine the effects of this poor implementation on emergency services.

[t-writescode]

Which is something that should be considered before writing this stuff and hopefully a T-Mobile engineer reads Hacker News to be encouraged to think about that and check it.