A breakdown of why local presence dialing services like Kixie and Air Core operate in legal gray areas and create problems for users. The speaker explains how these services work, their actual costs, and why they lead to higher spam flagging rates.
All these dialers like Kixie, and they're like local presence dialing. Their way of doing it is going to be legal. It's not legal now technically, but, like, it's walking a gray area where the legislation hasn't caught up. And they know this. They definitely know it. They know that, like, you getting a number from them for almost no money because it's on the Kixie network, or like Air Core, where it's nine bucks, they're probably paying eight cents per month for a number to Twilio, because in the packs that they buy in and you're paying nine bucks for a number. Yeah. You know, then, like, they're setting you up to fail because they know that you can't really give that number back. So you're going to be paying it. You're going to buy more. Every time it gets spam flagged, they know it's getting spam play because they're probably monitoring the numbers, but they're going to charge you to do that as well. And then they know that ultimately that their system is built off a backbone that's only meant for texting, and they just made an API that can make it cool. That's ultimately what you're paying for, and that's why it sucks and that's why it doesn't work.
