New Problem with Using a Virtual Number for Business Communication

[Matt Godwin]

Hi BP fam,

Here's the situation, I currently use OpenPhone for all of my real estate business related communications (e.g., talking to buyers, sellers, other agents, etc.) as I want to keep my personal cell phone number private. However, I was recently informed that the major carriers are going to be classifying all traffic from OpenPhone (and several other applications) as application-to-person (A2P) traffic instead of person-to-person (P2P) traffic. A2P traffic requires registration and the inclusion of requirements from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) (e.g., opt-in and opt-out language). The problem is, my communications are P2P just using a virtual number for privacy reasons. I'm not doing any SMS text-blasting, etc. 

Has anyone else run across this issue? What are you doing to solve it?

TIA