all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

Fri Nov 8 19:38:15 UTC 2019

AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Form Joint Venture to Transform Messaging Experience
Oct 24, 2019
The Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative will help drive the next generation of messaging for consumers and businesses.

Looks to be within the last month!

-----Original Message-----
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo at tzi.org>
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 2:29 PM
To: Chris Kimball <CKimball at misalliance.com>
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

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OK, I understand the part about text messages from February 2019 being sent on now, but…

> On Nov 7, 2019, at 23:42, Chris Kimball via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
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> https://investors.sprint.com/news-and-events/press-releases/press-release-details/2019/ATT-Sprint-T-Mobile-and-Verizon-Form-Joint-Venture-to-Transform-Messaging-Experience/default.aspx

Are we sure this isn’t a press release from 2008?

Grüße, Carsten

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