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You might be paying $1,000 per MB of SMS
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:39:51 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Debi Jones <debi.jones () gmail com> Date: July 29, 2007 1:55:08 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: You might be paying $1,000 per MB of SMS Reply-To: mojo () mobilejones comMost mobile phone subscribers love texting. And they love that it saves them money over making phone calls. Ten to twenty cents for a communique versus $.10 per minute for voice is seductive, indeed.
But have you ever gone through an exercise to determine how much per MB SMS is costing you? This comparative cost exercise demonstrates why carriers/operators continue to receive the lion's share of their data revenue from SMS. At $600 - $1,000 per MB, what is standard margin for the telcos is a web company's wet dream.
http://mobilejones.com/2007/07/27/you-might-be-paying-1000-per-mb-for- sms/
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