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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 17:12:04 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Chris Kantarjiev <cak () dimebank com> Date: June 10, 2005 2:50:26 PM EDT To: dave () farber net, patrick () ianai netSubject: Re: [IP] more on Verizon's Voice Mailboxes Now Give 'Shout Out' to Verizon Wireless Phones When New Messages Arrive
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.
I bet that VZW would have charged Verizon home for every such notification, because they have to show revenue, and Verizon home had no way to charge it back to the customer, and didn't wish to absorb the cost, because they would have to reveal it in their balance sheet.
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.
Yes. But there's nothing new here. The telecoms business is amazingly hide-bound, and much of that is because the in-place billing systems are so intractable. I spent several years in the SMS business, trying to sell third-party services to wireless providers. The number one complaint we got was "it would take us 18 months to implement the billing". It's really short-sightedness on their part - the fact that they have the billing relationship with the customer is what gives them power. They should be leveraging that rather than using it as an excuse. (By the same token, we tried to sell similar services to Avaya and other voice pbx vendors, and they, too, didn't/couldn't figure out how to manage the variable cost of sending the SMS, so they weren't interested.) ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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