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Xela19115

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Re: Paying for incoming messages?

said by pnh102 See Profile :

said by Xela19115 See Profile :

What I don't understand is why the carriers are forcing customers to pay for incoming messages?
What is so hard to understand? They make money off incoming text messages.

Most cell phone providers want to charge a premium for texting so that they can provide a nasty incentive for customers to upgrade to a higher-tier calling plan that includes a certain number of text messages. Either they make money by charging a premium for each message, or they make money by charging an extra monthly rate for a fixed number of text messages a month.
And until such business practices and pricing structures are tolerated by customeers the wireless services in the US will be far behind those of Far East and Europe.
permalink · 2008-03-10 09:42:57 · Print · Reply to this

pnh102
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Re: Paying for incoming messages?

said by Xela19115 See Profile :

And until such business practices and pricing structures are tolerated by customeers the wireless services in the US will be far behind those of Far East and Europe.
I wouldn't say our mobile technology is that far behind anymore. It just took longer for us to catch up because landline service in the USA was always cheaper and easier to get than landline service abroad. It was only very recently in the USA that using a cell phone exclusively became more economically justifiable.

We use the same GSM-based service available abroad. 3G is also being deployed in many parts of the USA as we speak. At least on the GSM side of things we can use just about any quad-band phone that we want with no problem at all.

Of course, GSM-based services in the USA still have a ways to go to catch up the CDMA-based high speed Internet services.
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