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$0.01
$0.01 -- unregistered sms surcharge per segment for US carriers 10DLC (2026)
US carriers charge a per-message surcharge starting at $0.006 per segment on unregistered 10DLC SMS traffic.
- applies to unregistered business SMS/10DLC traffic
- surcharges vary by carrier within a range of $0.006 to $0.017 per segment
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$0.01
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Currency Usd
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Sapt
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Tier B
https://sapt.ai/insights/10dlc-sms-compliance-2026 ↗
Source Article
10DLC in 2026: The SMS Compliance Rules That Block Your Texts
10DLC in 2026: The SMS Compliance Rules That Will Block Your Texts If You Ignore Them
Since February 2025, US carriers silently block every unregistered business text. In 2026, new FCC rules, higher fines, and rising carrier fees made the stakes worse. Here is what SMS compliance actually looks like…
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Sapt
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Range reported; midpoint used
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Industrymarketing
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US carriers 10DLC: $0.01 unregistered sms surcharge per segment. Source: Sapt (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/unregistered-sms-surcharges-2026
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