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Re: What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:54:07 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Rahul Tongia <tongia () cmu edu> Date: December 29, 2008 9:55:38 AM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, Rahul Tongia <tongia () cmu edu>Subject: Re: [IP] Re: What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting
Reply-To: tongia () cmu edu Dave,Let's not forget that in the US, perhaps as an artifact of the billing system where airtime costs money (dialing AND incoming calls), we pay to receive text messages. Thus, carriers make perhaps twice as much per text. To compare, in India, SMS (text) messages can cost as little as $0.01, with free incoming.
What I really hate is text spam (thankfully, there is yet limited telemarketing to cell phones). Sure, carriers are instructed to refund the $0.20 if we call, complain, and show them it was spam. 45 minutes to do that...no thanks.
Sure, there are ways to minimize texting spam, but the best methods cut down useful automated messages as well.
Rahul ************************************************************************ Rahul Tongia, Ph.D. Senior Systems Scientist Program in Computation, Organizations, and Society (COS) School of Computer Science (ISR) / Dept. of Engineering & Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA tel: 412-268-5619 fax: 412-268-2338 email: tongia () cmu edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rtongia David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Gary Johnston <johnston () nku edu> Date: December 29, 2008 9:03:18 AM EST To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About TextingWell of course they don't want to reveal their costs. If it cost them 10 mils per message I'd be surprised. They are using "what the market will bear" pricing. Keep in mind that the marketplace is paying >$1 for a little bottle of tap water.Gary Johnston Sent from Gary's 3G iPhone ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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