Good Morning.

I am writing to inform you that AT&T (FirstNet, AT&T, Cricket) is discontinuing it email to text / text to email service effective June 17,2025.  Verizon - messages are still being delivered (as far as we know) - officially discontinued  their service in December of 2024.

This means that any notification that is sent to a <phone number>@VTEXT.COM or <phone number>@TXT.ATT.NET address will stop working.  ATT has set a hard deadline of June 17, 2025 for service discontinuance.  Verizon has already announced that their service is discontinued, but it appears messages are still being delivered.  I was not aware of this until recently, so I wanted to get this out now so you can begin to make preparations to replace the VTEXT.COM and TXT.ATT.NET email to text service.  I will be following up with a more detailed email detailing exactly who will be impacted, so now would be a great time to reach out to me with any updated contact information.

If you have questions, please call or reply to to this email.

Thank you.

Jeff Mullins

Applications Division Manager

Randolph County IT

O: 336.318.6321

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