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Pairing links a real phone to the channel, and from then on the channel has a status you can read and subscribe to. Quotas, the warm-up ladder, send spacing and the cold-send guard are all tracked per channel, so a staging channel cannot exhaust the production one's allowance and a new number always starts its warm-up from day zero even if your account is old. Deleting a channel revokes its token and releases the linked-device slot on the phone. 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