Carrier Throughput Estimator
Estimate your sending capacity across the three major carriers from your Trust Score band, campaign count, and number count — because T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon each allocate throughput differently.
The three carriers do not share a throughput model. T-Mobile caps a daily segment count per brand (shared across all campaigns and numbers). AT&T allocates a per-minute rate per campaign. Verizon is fixed per number. Pick your Trust Score band and counts to see all three.
- Pay for external/secondary vetting to raise your Trust Score — the biggest lever for T-Mobile and AT&T.
- Use an Aegis Enhanced vet if the standard score is unsatisfactory.
- Choose the highest-throughput legitimate use case (e.g. AT&T Social class).
- Split traffic across campaigns — helps AT&T (per-campaign), not T-Mobile's brand-wide cap.
- Add numbers / a Number Pool — helps Verizon and spreads AT&T; not T-Mobile's daily cap.
- Apply for T-Mobile Special Business Review to exceed 200,000/day.
How it works
- T-Mobile — a brand-wide daily cap keyed to your Trust Score band. It is not multiplied by campaigns or numbers; splitting traffic does not raise it.
- AT&T — a per-campaign TPM (messages per minute) for your band. Effective capacity is the per-campaign rate × your number of campaigns, since AT&T allocates separately per campaign.
- Verizon — a fixed ~6,000 SMS TPM per sending number, independent of Trust Score. Adding numbers adds capacity (~4,500 TPM ≈ 75 MPS for reference).
Caveats
Verizon figures are aggregator-reported; Verizon does not officially publish them. The Sole Proprietor path has no Trust Score and fixed low throughput. These are planning estimates — your CSP’s enforced limits and your actual carrier traffic mix govern real delivery. See Trust Score and throughput for the full tables and the levers to raise each carrier’s number.