Re: Forgot to send link Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge Senders of Text Messages - NYTimes.com

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Bob Frankston" <bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com>
Date: October 11, 2008 5:58:52 PM EDT
To: <dave () farber net>, "'ip'" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: RE: [IP] Forgot to send link  Verizon Wireless Plans to  
Charge Senders of Text Messages - NYTimes.com

“It is not a free service,” Mr. Nelson said. “It didn’t cost us zero  
to build or to buy spectrum rights.”

What is telling about this statement is he is citing no direct  
relationship between the cost of SMS and their expenses. This is the  
fatal flaw in the telecom model -- a complete lack of transparency and  
thus market forces can’t act rationally. Why can’t they use this  
rationale charging us for unanswered calls? After all, they are just  
messages like SMS and it’s only policy that prevents such charges.

I wonder if this is a sign of the telecom abyss as they try to service  
their debt while the economy is troubled. The tragedy is that such  
actions take money away from an economy that is already being taxed by  
telecom for the cost of taxing them for …


-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 7:29 PM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Forgot to send link Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge  
Senders of Text Messages - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/technology/companies/11text.html


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