The Consumer Best Practices Guidelines, issued by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), specify that all subscription campaigns require a monthly reminder message. Before a program is renewed, a renewal message needs to be sent to the subscriber reminding him/her that the subscription is about to be renewed. The reminder message needs to specify the pricing as well as opt-out instructions. The guidelines are silent on how much lead time a content provider needs to give the consumer before actually renewing the subscription.
All US carriers require content providers to implement the MMA guidelines, but some carriers impose additional restrictions.
Verizon Wireless announces that consumers should be given at least a 2 business day lead time before a subscription gets renewed. This means that the monthly notification message needs to be sent out 2 business days before the renewal Premium SMS message is initiated.
Many content providers have been sending out renewal messages 10 or 20 minutes before sending out the premium sms message. This is no longer allowed by Verizon.
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