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more on Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon Wireless Phones When New Messages Arrive
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:32:47 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net> Date: June 10, 2005 2:13:24 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>Subject: Re: [IP] more on Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon Wireless Phones When New Messages Arrive
On Jun 10, 2005, at 2:04 PM, David Farber wrote:
Verizon and VZW are fundamentally separate companies with separate infrastructure, selling to different audiences. *I* can't get Verizon home service, for example, even though I could get a VZW phone. VZW thinks that text messages are worth a lot of money, instead of realizing that they are a nice way to get a little extra revenue from an otherwise underutilized network.They probably also still think that digital watches are a pretty cool idea.I suspect that making this happen involved a lot of negotiation around how much accounting to do between the corporate entities, and just how complicated it was to change the billing system to manage it.
Possibly. But Verizon home could have offered it without any negotiation a long time ago, and not just to VZ mobile phones. You might have to pay for an incoming SMS, but lots of people would happily pay for the service.
For a few bucks a month, I get a "find-me" number which SMSes me when someone calls, their number, their name, and even their city. It also e-mails the voicemails to me, takes faxes & e-mails me PDFs, gives me a toll-free number, etc., etc.
This is all trivial to do. Some people do it themselves with a $500 PC and free software. The fact that Verizon as a company took so long to do it speaks volumes for the telecommunications industry.
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