Text messaging further exposed as a colossal rip-off » VentureBeat - The Diigo Meta page

• 30 Dec 08
  

  Scott McIntosh

  I can't begin to tell you how happy I am that The New York Times decided to take on the ...

• 29 Dec 08
  

  Nadine Touzet

  text messaging

  • carriers
  • price-fixing
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  • • text message rates
    • pay-per-use price for messages
    • class action lawsuits filed against the carriers
    • costs-per-message
    • text messaging bundles
    • not only are text messages very small amounts of data, but they have their own control channel in the wireless network — and this channel is being used by the carriers in their operations whether a text is being sent or not
    • Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume. It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million
    • unlimited plans

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