ender7074
join:2006-11-21
Saint Louis, MO | Wow
Thats a lot of dough for something as simple as text messages. I'll bet they still complain about it not costing enough though...
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jfmezei
Premium
join:2007-01-03
Beaconsfield, QC
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Re: Wow
If Michael Jackson's death resulted in AT&T profits rising, shouldn't the Jackson estate get AT&T to give them some royalties on the generated traffic ? 
the large north american mobile networks don't set prices according to costs, they set prices according to what the market will bear. If people are willing to pay $0.10 per SMS, then they wil charge $0.10 even if it costs them just a fraction of a penny to provide.
In fairness though, one needs to realise that SMS does require some hefty computing and storage. Remember that SMS is store and forward and some system will store your system until the destination handset is turned on, at which point it needs to route the message via appropriate systems to finally reach the antenna that serves that handset. And since they charge for each SMS, there is accounting and probably logging involved which requires the distributed nodes to send accounting information to some central accounting system. |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
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join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
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| said by jfmezei  :And since they charge for each SMS, there is accounting and probably logging involved which requires the distributed nodes to send accounting information to some central accounting system. Which is probably the largest cost in providing SMS service.
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StockWatcher
@sbc.com |  reply to jfmezei
Or the Jackson estate can just go out and buy more AT&T stock especially while it's still in the toilet: down approx 39% from a year ago... |
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