Comments on: Verizon Trying To Kill 3rd Party SMS Services

By: M3ta

M3ta — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:43:51 +0000

It’s stupid to pay to receive the MT.
America should just friggin’ evolve and get into 2008 instead of being where Europe was 6 years ago.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:10:51 +0000

More on this: http://www.wirelessweek.com/VZW-Rate-Change-SMS-Industry.aspx

“Other operators have talked about raising their transaction fees, but Verizon is the first to take action, the anonymous source said.” Sounds like collusion between the carriers to me…

By: DavidB

DavidB — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:37:12 +0000

I long ago disabled sms send or receive on my account. I find it unconscionable that I have to pay to receive unwanted messages. The sender should ALWAYS have to be the one paying in my opinion. If this can move us in that direction, I’m all for it. If it is just Verizon figuring out how to monetize something else, well, boo on yoou Verizon. I guess they have to do something since the Alltel buyout is going to cost them almost triple what they planned when it was announced.

By: haephaestus

haephaestus — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:58:29 +0000

If this helps to reduce sms spam, I really don’t have a problem with it. I’ve started to move away from having services send me sms primarily because I don’t have the ability to archive my text messages so nearly everything is sent to email instead. Nowadays, email storage is cheap and sms is quickly becoming outdated for me due to the archaic 161 character limitation. It would be interesting to define what exactly is ‘free-2-end-user’ services as this might apply to Twitter or Facebook who don’t really charge for sms notifications. But time will tell.

Cheers!