In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, spam messages have become ubiquitous, infiltrating our inboxes and often disrupting our daily communications. Artificial intelligence (AI) stands at the forefront of combating this issue, particularly in text message spam scoring and filtering. While AI brings many advantages to this arena, it is not without challenges, particularly concerning false positives and their impact on brands. This blog post delves into these challenges while maintaining an optimistic perspective on AI's role in curbing spam, focusing on the importance of model updates and approved change preservation.


1. The Risk of False Positives and Brand Impact

A significant hurdle in AI-driven spam filters is the frequency of false positives. When genuine messages are incorrectly marked as spam, it can have severe repercussions for brands, disrupting customer engagement and tarnishing reputations. This is particularly true for businesses where digital communication is a lifeline.

Spammers are constantly refining their strategies to outsmart spam filters. This necessitates AI systems that are not just responsive but also proactive in learning new patterns and adapting to evolving spam tactics.

For AI to effectively identify spam, it needs access to large volumes of data, which can raise privacy concerns. Users may be wary of how their data is being used and whether their communications are being monitored.


Rethinking Spam Filtering for Verified Brands

One of the most significant challenges in AI-driven spam filtering is the risk of false positives. When legitimate messages from verified brands are incorrectly flagged as spam, it disrupts communication and potentially harms the brand-customer relationship.

A less stringent spam filter could be applied to text messages from brands that have undergone a registration and verification process. This approach presumes that verified entities are less likely to abuse messaging systems. However, this system must be dynamic, adjusting the level of scrutiny based on user feedback and complaints.

3. User Protection and Complaints-Based Adjustment

User protection remains paramount. Suppose a registered brand begins to receive complaints about the nature of its messages. In that case, the AI system should be capable of dynamically increasing that brand's spam filtering level, ensuring users are protected from potential spam.


Benefits of a Verification-Based Approach

By tailoring spam filtering based on verification status and complaint history, AI systems can significantly reduce false positives, ensuring that important and wanted messages reach the user.

2. Encouraging Responsible Messaging by Brands

This approach incentivizes brands to maintain high-quality, relevant messaging to avoid complaints and subsequent stricter spam filtering.

A system that adjusts its filtering based on transparent criteria (like verification status and user feedback) can increase trust among users and brands.


To effectively implement this approach, several key steps must be taken:

1. Ongoing Improvement and Change Preservation

Constantly updating and refining AI algorithms is crucial. Importantly, these updates should preserve previously approved changes to avoid redundant approvals and ensure consistent performance.

The effective operation of AI systems necessitates the integration of dynamic algorithms and continuous learning. These systems should possess the sophistication to dynamically adjust their filtering levels based on real-time feedback and complaint data. Concurrently, they must undergo regular updates and training with new data to maintain their effectiveness. This ongoing process should include preserving previously approved changes to ensure that advancements are not negated. Such a blend of dynamic adaptability and continuous learning is crucial for minimizing false positives and effectively adapting to evolving and sophisticated challenges, like spam strategies.

Users should be able to override default settings, allowing them to personalize their spam filtering preferences.


Conclusion: A Forward-Thinking Approach to Spam Management

In conclusion, while the challenges of using AI in text message spam filtering, such as the risk of false positives and privacy concerns, are significant, they are not insurmountable. Implementing a verification-based approach and ongoing model updates offers a promising solution. This strategy reduces false positives by tailoring spam filtering for verified brands, encourages responsible messaging, and builds trust. The dynamic nature of AI algorithms, coupled with continuous learning and user feedback integration, ensures adaptability to evolving spam tactics while preserving user control and transparency. Ultimately, the right balance of AI innovation and strategic implementation can significantly enhance our digital communication landscape by effectively curbing spam without compromising legitimate messaging.

Navigating the Challenges and Embracing the Potential of AI in Text Message Spam Filtering

In today’s digital environment, efficient and reliable communication methods are essential. Registered Business Messaging is a functional communication strategy that enhances the interaction between businesses and customers by enabling the automated dispatch of personalized messages.

Registered Business Messaging effectively delivers essential information, updates, and promotional content, improving customer engagement and satisfaction. It transforms standard alerts and notifications into more interactive and appreciated messages, enhancing customer relationships and loyalty.

Registered Business Messaging plays a significant role in improving operational productivity by automating various communication processes. It helps businesses focus on broader strategic objectives by reducing manual tasks, improving consistency, and minimizing communication errors.

Registered Business Messaging provides tailored messaging solutions suitable for various industries:

Includes quick transaction alerts and anti-fraud notifications.

Covers appointment reminders and essential health tips.

Involves updates on orders and promotional offers.

Includes booking confirmations and travel updates.

Registered Business Messaging assists in the secure transmission of messages by adhering to stringent security protocols and regulations, safeguarding sensitive business and customer information.

Registered Business Messaging is vital in improving business communication strategies, ensuring enhanced customer experiences and operational efficiency. Adopting Registered Business Messaging is a strategic decision to leverage technology to improve communication effectiveness and results.

The Effectiveness of Registered Business Messaging in Modern Communication

Have you noticed a drop in answered calls from your customers lately? Your business number could very well be flagged as SPAM by network carriers and SPAM filtering third-party services and apps. Numbers that are flagged may even be displayed as “SPAM LIKELY”, “SPAM RISK” or “SCAM LIKELY” to your customers before they answer your call.

Why are my numbers being flagged as SPAM?

Every time your business makes a call to a potential or existing customer, the customer’s phone carrier matches your number against a list of numbers they’ve determined to be SPAM numbers. Numbers are added to this list based on their history, customer complaints and other analytics from scam ID technologies.

Some common reasons that numbers are flagged as SPAM include:

1. A high volume of outbound calls per day by a single number

Carrier’s analytics software can’t always detect whether a number is legitimate or from a robot. The higher the volume of calls from a number, the more suspicious it appears. Generally, more than 100 calls per day from a single number will be viewed as suspicious.

2. Somone reported a number to its carrier as SPAM

Unfortunately, more and more numbers are being reported as SPAM due to increases in spoofing. Spoofing is when a caller disguises their caller ID as coming from a local number or company that the recipient may trust. Robocallers may be masking their identity under the name of your business, lowering the chance of customers accepting your calls.

If your numbers’ outbound caller IDs have not been correctly set, they could likely be flagged automatically as spam by carriers’ SPAM detection algorithms.

Carriers also have various features and apps that are automatically enabled on mobile devices to display incoming call numbers that have been previously reported for SPAM as “Scam Likely”.

In some cases, customers may also opt-in to extra protective features that prevent calls flagged as “Scam Likely” from even reaching their phone.

Unfortunately, these lists of “SPAM” numbers reported are Carrier-specific. There is no central body or service that oversees number designation, which can make getting a number unflagged not such a straightforward process.

How to keep your numbers from being labeled as SPAM

The best way to keep your numbers from being incorrectly marked as SPAM is by being proactive. Businesses can get their number whitelisted among the top U.S carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon) by registering their numbers with the 

. By registering, businesses are often able to avoid having their numbers flagged as SPAM for the three reasons mentioned above.

 is also another great way to make sure your numbers aren’t incorrectly labeled as SPAM and boost your answer rate. Verified calling gives your customers the confidence to know it’s really you on the other end by including built-in branding, a verification badge and your reason for calling.

How to get your SPAM labeled numbers unflagged

As mentioned above, each Carrier and third-party SPAM blocking service/app has its own list of numbers marked as SPAM. Use the following links to register your numbers with these carriers and services and appeal to have incorrectly flagged or blocked numbers unflagged or unblocked.

https://hiyahelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=824667


Robokiller is used by millions to block spam callers. Once a number is reported by a single user, it will be automatically be blocked from all other users. Email their support to unflag your number. support@robokiller.com.


Nomorobo is another popular SPAM blocking app and winner of the FTC robocall challenge. To contact them, email reports@nomorobo.com.


Numbers on Icehook’s list are flagged as SPAM if they reach a risk level of 81-100.



Numbers on Truespam’s list are flagged as SPAM if they reach a score of over 60.


Build trust with your customers and boost your answer rate with verified calling. Our experts are ready to assist you with registration or any questions you may have.

Why your number shows up as SPAM (and how to fix it)

A rate limit is a cap on the number of message segments a person or business can send per second (MPS). Rate limits are set by messaging carriers like T-Mobile and AT&T to maintain a safe and efficient messaging ecosystem for businesses and consumers alike. Without rate limits, carrier networks would become quickly congested and unreliable.

While rate limits may seem like an obstacle to your message sending at first, they play a vital role in keeping the text-messaging ecosystem safe by reducing instances of spam messaging and snowshoeing. It’s thanks in part to rate limits that text messaging is considered the most widely available and reliable communication channel.

To determine what rate limits apply to your messaging, it’s important to understand what your messaging use case is. While 

 (10-digit long code application to person) rate limits can vary greatly. The default rate limit for 10DLC is 1 MPS but can increase up to 1000 MPS depending on your messaging use case.

Not sure what your messaging use case is? 

 to learn everything you need to know and get started on registering your 10DLC messaging campaigns.

If you’re new to 10DLC messaging, it’s important to understand the campaign registry, a registration process for all message senders that helps protect the messaging ecosystem and lets senders benefit from higher rate limits. If you’re unfamiliar with campaign registration, 

check out our previous blog on it to gain a better understanding

While some messaging providers leave it to their customers to determine what rate limits they require, Tychron takes on the heavy lifting of setting rate limits automatically in accordance with your messaging campaigns. This ensures that our message senders are able to benefit from the fastest message sending possible while staying compliant with campaign registry regulations. Tychron’s automatic rate limits also lessen the burden on your programmers as no extra configuration is required to get the most out of your messaging.

For inbound messaging, customers receiving messages through Tychron are not subject to any rate limits. However, these messages are still subject to carrier rate limits and the rate limits of whoever is sending the messages.

Get the maximum rate limits on all your messaging while saving an average of 35% on your messaging by switching to Tychron as your messaging service provider. Message faster, save more, no extra work required.

Simplifying Messaging: Rate Limits

As businesses and consumers continue to shift towards a remote-first mentality, the need for over-the-phone service continues to grow. While the use of communication products and conferencing software like Google Meet and Zoom has increased significantly over the past few years, voice calling is still the preferred channel among consumers when it comes to voice communication.



However, while business and consumer use of voice calling continues to grow, cases of robocalls are also on the rise. In 2021 alone, more than 50 billion robocalls were made to U.S phones.

 Overall, more than 5.7 million people filed fraud reports, totaling a yearly loss of $5.8 billion dollars among consumers and businesses.



As instances of fraud increase, the suspicion consumers have in who is really on the other end of the line is growing. In fact, only 21% of consumers are likely to pick the phone for an unidentified caller vs 68% for an identified caller!

 With 79% of calls going unanswered, time and money are being thrown out the window by businesses that do not use enhanced identification for their voice calling.

For businesses that want to engage more with their customers over the phone and stop wasting resources, Tychron includes 

, with verified calling businesses can easily display their branding, reasons for calling and a verification badge when making a call. By including branding and a verification badge, businesses are able to extinguish the suspicion customers have of who is on the other end for every call.

Verified calling is currently available for Android devices in 9 countries: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, India and the Philippines, with more to come.

Boost your answer rates by building trust

In a world where the average consumer faces up to 44 spam calls per month,

 verified calling helps businesses to stand out from the scammers and give their customers the confidence to pick up the phone. Without branding, your outgoing calls are likely to go unanswered or worse, be blocked by customers who suspect spam. A picture is worth a thousand words, and creating a visual connection with your customers before they answer the call is the fastest way to gain their trust. According to market research by Google, businesses are experiencing 3x higher answer rates by using verified calling.

Bring your customers up to speed with your reason for calling

By displaying their reason for calling, businesses are able to shorten the time needed to communicate critical information to their customers with verified calling. It’s a quick way to save time, provide your customers with a better service experience and boost the reputation of your brand.

Deliver better conversations with verified calling

Ready to make your answer rate skyrocket and deliver more? Tychron’s experts are here to help you get up and running quickly with verified calling and include it for free with our voice services. 

Build trust with your customers and boost your answer rate with verified calling. Our experts are ready to assist you with registration or any questions you may have. 

How Verified Calling Can Make Your Answer Rate Skyrocket

Business Messaging in 2022, The Good and The Bad

Business messaging continues to grow in 2022. In fact, the number of automated messages sent by businesses this year is expected to exceed 2.7 trillion! 

 While this growth in yearly messaging traffic continues to show that text messaging is a trusted and reliable form of communication for businesses and consumers alike, it also presents a few challenges for brands.


As more businesses adopt message sending into their communication and marketing strategies, competition for consumers’ attention also increases. Likewise, the more messages consumers receive, the greater their concerns are for SPAM messages. It’s essential for businesses to make the right first impressions with their customers when connecting for the first time over a text message. However, it can be difficult to give customers the confidence that it is really your business on the other end with traditional SMS messaging. Thankfully, brands can overcome this challenge and stand out from the competition with 

Verified SMS enhances traditional messaging by including your business branding, a verification badge, and previews of links in your messaging. By including your branding and a verification badge, your customers can be confident that they are really interacting with your business and not some SPAM messenger.

To start, verified SMS is currently available for Android devices in 10 countries: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, India and the Philippines, with more to come.

Verified SMS works on a per-message basis, meaning that the verified SMS protocol verifies each message your business sends so that your customers know that every interaction is secure. This verification protocol is performed using unreadable, irreversible authenticity codes, keeping the content of your messages private.

Getting started with Verified SMS is quick and simple. Just message Tychron to begin integrating Verified SMS into your 

 message sending and we’ll handle all the heavy lifting in the backend. No API configuration needed.

Verified SMS can be used to boost your brand awareness by including your business name and logo at the start of your text message interactions. It’s a quick way to let your customers know they are dealing with a familiar face. Likewise, visual link previews also provide an opportunity to catch the eye of your recipients and showcase products or services directly.

Market research conducted by Google shows that 77% of U.S. consumers prefer verified SMS over traditional SMS.

 Businesses that use verified SMS are viewed as more trustworthy and experience higher customer satisfaction.

 Naturally, these increases in consumer trust and brand awareness have led to higher conversion rates and larger customer bases for businesses that use verified SMS across various industries, including major brands such as Wish, Air Asia and Kayak.

Enhance Your Messaging Strategy with Verified SMS

From two-factor authentication and account notifications to sales alerts, order confirmations and more, verified SMS can enhance your customer journey at every step. By building trust with each text message interaction, businesses are able to improve their response rates and stand out from other businesses trying to reach your customers via text messaging.

 to get started on building more trust with your customers with Verified SMS. We’ll get everything set up in the backend so you can start using Verified SMS without any extra configuration.

Use Verified SMS to highlight your brand and give your customers the confidence to know it's your business on the other end. Reach out today to get started, we’ll handle all the heavy lifting in the backend. No API configuration needed.

How to Stand Out in the World of Business Messaging with Verified SMS.

Hosted SMS is a messaging service that enables Tychron customers to use their existing phone numbers from other voice service providers to send and receive 

. Hosting with Tychron is easy and will not interrupt or change your current voice services. It’s a quick and simple way to get more out of the number(s) you already have!

With hosted SMS you can start connecting with your existing customers in new engaging ways over the same phone number they are familiar with. From booking confirmations and appointment reminders to sales alerts and enhanced security with two-factor authentication, there are tons of ways your customers can benefit from receiving just a simple text from your business.

You might not know it, but approximately 43% of consumers have actually texted a business before even being first contacted by them.

That is a lot of missed potential for customer engagement if you don’t already have your business number text-enabled. With hosted SMS, there is no need to switch numbers or get a new one. It’s a simple way to give your customers more options when connecting with your business.

To get a better idea of how you can use SMS to streamline the way your business communicates, check out our 

Reach out to us today to get started with Hosted SMS. We’ll walk you through the entire process for text-enabling your number and can advise on how to get the most out of your business messaging.

Maximize the potential of your business number today with Hosted SMS.

Hosted SMS with Tychron

For businesses that are already using SMS to reach their customers, the SMS marketing success stories that are often highlighted online are no surprise. The incredibly high open rates (98%! 

), reply rates (4.5x more likely than email 

) and direct customer engagement that comes with text messaging give businesses a leg up over the competition. But the truth is, the SMS landscape is getting more crowded as the industry continues to grow. 

As more businesses adopt messaging into their communication and marketing strategies in 2021, SMS is becoming less and less of marketers’ best-kept secret. However, there are still plenty of ways to stand out from the crowd with text messaging. One tool many businesses don’t realize the full utility of is 

With MMS, businesses can send their customers and employees pictures, videos, GIFS, audio files and a text message longer than the 160 character limit of a typical SMS segment. For internal communication, Tychron takes MMS a step further by enabling multiple senders to engage in a fluid group conversation through our MMS API.

While MMS might not seem like that big of a deal on the surface, it can actually be a gamechanger for businesses when used with a little bit of creativity. Here are a few ways to add more to your business messaging with MMS.

When it comes to marketing, the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” nails it. Take a scroll through your favorite social media platform and you’ll be bombarded with companies using vibrant color pallets and eye-catching design in an attempt to get a second of your attention. And to an extent, their strategies work well. Marketing content that features visuals is found to increase view rates by as much as 94%.

The only problem? Businesses that save their creative visual content for only their social media channels or email marketing are drowning in a sea of competition. All the hours of design work and wordsmithing you put into promoting your latest sale doesn’t amount to much when the majority of your audience is being pulled away by your competitors that are just a scroll or two above your post.

So why not connect with your customers directly?
When it comes to marketing, MMS can be a conversion-generating powerhouse for your business. It takes the high open rates of SMS and pairs it with the ability to send sales-converting engaging visual content. The average consumer is already on their phone for fours a day.

 Instead of waiting for customers to possibly see your post while social media scrolling or by chance check their email promotions inbox and see your latest newsletter, send a direct MMS that is likely to get read within minutes.

Get Business Done Faster with Group Messaging

MMS isn’t only a conversion generator for businesses but can also be an essential tool for internal communications with 

. When you’re managing dozens of employees at a time, coordinating shift schedules or managing promotions, it can be hard to keep track of things. Whether it be a missed email, or trying to find the right information that’s buried in a stack of replies and forwards, we’ve all been there.

Group texting with Tychron’s MMS API takes the frustration of missed emails and inbox sorting by providing businesses with a fluid group that everyone can connect to on their favorite device. For the messages that are really crucial, text messaging’s incredibly high open and response rates really come in handy.



Looking to upgrade your business messaging?

Engage thousands at a time around the world with Tychron’s MMS API. Convert the lead, keep your employees in the loop, and get a better ROI with your messaging. Tychron provides transparent pricing on all your messaging so you can do more while keeping your overhead down.

Start delivering media rich content to your customers for higher engagement and better brand awareness today.

How to Get More Conversions and Better Engagement with Your Business Messaging

Want to reach your customers every hour of the day?

How about every 5 minutes? With continually increasing cell phone usage around the world, it’s never been easier to reach people today than with a simple text message. In fact, the average American checks their phone 262 times per day. 

 For millennials, checking their smartphone has become a part of their daily morning routine, with 66% of younger Americans checking it before even getting out of bed to start their day. 

People love their cellphones, so what? Higher usage equals more engagement. Every time your customer glances at their cell phone, it is an opportunity for you to connect with them as a marketer or business owner. That’s once every 5.5 minutes per average customer! It’s no wonder that more and more businesses are adopting text messaging in 2021.

But just because you text-enable your business phone number and start filling up your contact list, it doesn’t mean you’re ready to thrive with business messaging. Just like any other communication tool out there, it takes an informed strategy to succeed as a business with SMS. Here are a few ways to develop your business’ text messaging strategy and take advantage of the most responsive communication channel there is.

Whether sending a booking confirmation to an individual client or promoting an upcoming sale to tens of thousands of your customers, SMS allows for fluid, direct communication. Unlike email marketing or social media, text messaging is also a much more personal way of communication. While this does lead to some “gotchas” when creating your text messaging strategy (see section 2), it also enables your business to create more meaningful, personalized connections. The high trust rate consumers have in SMS provides key opportunities for your business to get a better ROI for your marketing spend.

When it comes to open rates, SMS is king. Your customers are 78% more likely to open a text message from your business than an email and will probably even open it within the first 90 seconds of receiving it.

 When you compare text messaging to the click-through rates of other traditional marketing channels like pay-per-click advertising (2%) 

, there is even less of a competition. SMS is hands down the most direct way for your business to reach its audience.

The high engagement rate found with text messaging doesn’t just stem from typical text-based SMS messages. 

 allows businesses to connect with their customers more by sending highly interactive content like photos, videos, GIFS, and more. With MMS, it’s easy to send engaging visual content typically found in email or social media marketing but through the fast and reliable channel of text messaging.

MMS also can be used to streamline your typical customer-related interactions. Need to show where your delivery driver hid a package? Just send a picture of the delivered package. Offering customer support over text? Sending a picture can help your customer solve whatever problem they may be facing in a flash rather than sending lengthy, detailed written instructions.

We mentioned the high trust rate consumers have in SMS earlier, however this trust doesn’t come from nowhere. The text messaging and telecommunications industry as a whole is fairly regulated. While this regulation may seem scary at first, it actually is a part of what makes business messaging such an efficient tool for communication. Thanks to the regulations in place, consumers are protected from SPAM messaging, and businesses have a reliable way to connect with customers directly to their most personal device, their cell phones.

When strategizing for your text messaging campaigns, one of the most important things to keep track of is customer consent. For any text messages you send as a business, it is essential to ensure that you have proper consent from your customers and a solid understanding of what messaging activities classify as SPAM. If a customer hasn’t opted in (formally consented) to receiving SMS or MMS messages from your business, your messages can be marked as SPAM and your phone number even blacklisted. Likewise, it is always essential that your message receivers have the option to opt out of receiving messages from your business. To get a good base understanding of consumer consent and the do’s and don’ts for business messaging, we recommend checking out 

CTIA’s (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s) comprehensive best practices guide

We at Tychron also advise businesses on how to develop successful and regulation-abiding text-messaging campaigns as well as provide insights for how to maximize your customer engagement. Developing the right text-messaging strategy for your business can seem overwhelming at first, but with the right guidance business messaging can be a powerful tool for customer engagement and increasing conversions.

Another key step for setting up your business messaging strategy is understanding The Campaign Registry. It is the latest shift in the business messaging landscape and presents new requirements for businesses that benefit from text messaging. Essentially, businesses are required to register their messaging campaigns (use cases) with the official 

or a registered campaign service provider (CSP) like 

. To get a better understanding of the Campaign Registry, read our previous blog on 

 to register your messaging campaign and get access to useful resources like our use case selection guide.

Just like managing email marketing, PPC, or social media campaigns, the work never truly “ends.” The more you prepare for your text-messaging campaigns, the better. But there will always be things that can be tweaked and improved. If you are looking to get a better ROI with your business messaging and lower your overhead, consider supercharging your messaging strategy with informational services like 

Enhanced Location Routing Number Lookup (eLRN)

. They are two powerful tools that give businesses more control over their messaging and provide insight into how to save on messaging.

Beyond giving you a better understanding of where your message traffic is coming and going, MCL can be used to audit your billing. Ensure you are being charged the correct amount for your messaging by both your network carrier(s) and messaging service providers.

Of course, the easiest way to save on your business messaging is to partner with a messaging service provider that offers transparent pricing. Tychron provides messaging services on 

 without installation, text-enablement and fluff fees. 

 or give us a call today to learn how Tychron customers save an average of 35% on their messaging costs. Communication is tough. Tychron makes it easy.

Get better, more affordable messaging today on a dynamic and intelligent network.

Understanding Business Messaging in 2021: How to Develop Your Text 

Better communication with business messaging

With over 5.1 Billion mobile users around the world and a consumer trust rate of 93%, it’s a no-brainer why more and more businesses are adopting SMS in 2021. 

 It’s a fast and efficient way to reach people and has a shockingly high open rate of 98%. 

 In fact, consumers are over 39% more likely to respond to a text from your business than an email! 

For most of us, our smartphone is the first thing we pick up in the morning, the last thing we look at before going to bed and is rarely farther than an arm’s reach away. Why have your messages left sitting in a spam email inbox when you can communicate with your audience directly. Businesses from every industry can leverage the high trust and response rate of text messaging for more efficient and impactful communication.

Whether sending a shift schedule out to your staff, confirming an appointment with a customer, or spreading the word about an upcoming sale at your store, SMS can be the most efficient and impactful way your business communicates. But like any other tool a business leverages, there can be some ”gotchas” that leave you scratching your head when it comes to billing time.

The problem: undeliverable messages and overbilling

Similar to email or calling, implementing a cost-efficient and effective communication strategy with SMS can be tricky. The more phone numbers you collect from your staff and customers, the harder it gets to keep track of where your message traffic is coming from and going. As time goes on, you might not realize that some of the messages you send are not reaching their intended destination. In fact, they may actually be going to numbers that are not text-enabled.

Every time you send a number to a non text-enabled number, that’s your voice not being heard and money going down the drain. While an undelivered message here or there might not seem like a huge loss, it can end up costing your business thousands over time. Don’t like the sound of that? The good news is that there is an easy fix to this problem, Message Carrier Lookup (MCL).

The solution: Message Carrier Lookup (MCL)

Tychron’s MCL API enables businesses to verify whether or not a phone number is text-enabled and retrieves other useful information about a number like its carrier and country. The simple and secure API can be used simultaneously with your regular A2P (application-to-peer) messaging and act as a filter so that you only deliver messages to numbers that are actually text-enabled.

Beyond saving money on your messaging directly, the MCL API also allows you to stay on top of your overall billing. You can use the information you receive from the API to audit your carrier and messaging provider surcharges to ensure that you are only being charged for what you owe.

Whether you use Tychron as your messaging service provider or another provider, the MCL API can help you straighten out your messaging contact lists and lower your overall spending. 

 and learn how easy it is to get more while spending less with MCL.

Consider using Tychron as your messaging service provider. Tychron customers save 35% more on average compared to other major messaging service providers. No install fees, messaging-enablement fees or fluff fees *. Just better messaging, for less. Book a free consultation today and find out how much you can save by switching to Tychron.

Save an average of 35% on your messaging by switching to Tychron as your messaging service provider.

How to Save on Business Messaging

In our globally connected world, the old saying “time is money” has never been more true than today. While text messaging and voice calling enable businesses to connect with their clients easily, as a business grows, it can become tricky to keep track of where resources are being used. As your business develops to meet the demand of your growing customer base, it is essential to develop your telecommunications and messaging strategy as well.

Your time is precious and shouldn’t be wasted. That’s why Tychron developed its 

Location Routing Number (LRN) lookup and enhanced LRN API

. These two powerful tools offer you more control over your network traffic and enable you to use your resources where they matter most. Get all the information you need to prevent unnecessary connection costs and deliver better conversations for less.

An LRN is a unique 10-digit number assigned to a telephone switch that is used to identify the routing of a phone call. It is thanks to an LRN that a telephone number can stay the same when being transferred (or ported) from one carrier to another. While the telephone number can stay the same, its LRN must be changed to ensure proper routing for the number. An LRN is useful on its own for number porting, but APIs take the utility of LRNs a step further.

As numbers sometimes get ported from one carrier to another over time, routing costs can become more expensive than they need to be. However, an API can be used to determine the most cost-effective routes for your calling. Tychron’s LRN lookup API lets customers look up a telephone number’s LRN and find out its current carrier. With Tychron, it’s easy to ensure accurate routing for all your calls and avoid unnecessary routing costs.

Get the analytics and control you need with enhanced LRN (eLRN)

Developed as an extension of the LRN API, eLRN gives you the ability to monitor your network traffic in-depth. Look up a number’s geographical and background information such as its state, city, zip code, network carrier, and more (

Take a look at our full API documentation

). With key information in hand, it’s easy to craft an informed communication strategy that lowers your overhead, prevents dropped connections, and offers better customer experiences.

Slated for release in 2021, the next iteration of Tychron’s eLRN API will give customers the ability to gather powerful analytics beyond just geographical information. With eLRN 2.0, you will be able to gain demographic information about a number’s location, such as population age percentages, gender ratios, and income level breakdowns. Stay tuned for more updates on eLRN 2.0 and learn more about how you can further streamline your communication strategy with its release in 2021.

Looking for more control over your network traffic?

Tychron’s LRN and eLRN make it easy. Know more, spend less, and supercharge the way your business communicates. Book a free consultation with Tychron and get started today.

Gain more control over your network traffic with eLRN, our experts are ready to answer any questions you may have.

How to Gain More Control Over Your Network Traffic

Whether it’s by getting notified about a flash sale at a favorite store, finding out an upcoming shift schedule for work, or even receiving a security breach alert for an online account, businesses and consumers benefit greatly from using messaging services such as 

 for quick, efficient, and secure communication. Until 

 standard 10-digit numbers (or 10-digit long codes) were primarily used by consumers for peer-to-peer messaging. However, 10-digit long codes are now becoming a powerful medium for businesses to communicate with their customers. This is known as business messaging or application-to-peer 10-digit long code (A2P 10DLC) messaging.

Unfortunately, as more and more businesses have benefited from business messaging in recent years, instances of unsolicited and SPAM messaging have also increased. To protect consumers from unwanted messages and offer businesses better texting, wireless carriers (or Mobile Network Operators (MNO’s)) in the U.S., such as AT&T and T-Mobile, are issuing changes to the business messaging ecosystem by implementing a registration process for Brands (businesses) who use A2P 10DLC messaging. This new progression of business messaging is referred to as The Campaign Registry, where messaging use cases are considered ‘campaigns’.

Businesses that plan on registering their messaging campaigns must do so through the official 

or an official Campaign Service Provider (CSP) like Tychron. By registering your business, and getting verified your business will be able to benefit from higher messaging throughput (the number of messages your business can send over a given period of time).

Brands that do not register their text campaigns will face extra surcharges on their messaging and may even have messages blocked by the carriers.



Click here to stay informed on important deadlines for campaign registration

 and learn how to prevent your business from facing unnecessary messaging fees.

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