You should ask your carrier why they are charging for SMS. There is no reason to do that in 2020.
Though you are right Apple needs to deal with the reality of their customers.
Though you are right Apple needs to deal with the reality of their customers.
Plenty of places in the world charge for SMS. Ask all you want, doesn't mean things will change.
MY wife just applied for a mortgage in her home country, they won't approve it until they have a picture of her on file.. some places just do things differently hence the whole 'please test outside of the US' point of this post which appears to have gone over your head.
What a ridiculous argument trying to blame another corporate to hide Apple's folly. By that logic, the same argument applies to Apple too - Installing apps used to be free before Apple decided to charge developers for it, and make all apps costliers for all us.