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en102
Canadian, eh?

join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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Wireless loves txt.

quote:
Wireless companies have been accused of supporting phone spam because they make a profit off of those people without text message plans who receive these messages.
Very true... I have a Nextel Blackberry 7100i, and never receive spam (filters work well). On my AT&T Samsung ZX-20, I had to have AT&T disable messaging altogether, as both lines we receiving ringtone spam ad messaging Of course, AT&T has some 'controls', but then you have to pay fees to use it.

In general - wireless companies love txt messaging though, as its VERY high profit margin
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service
quote:
Commercially SMS is a massive industry in 2006 worth over 80 billion dollars globally.[15] SMS has an average global price of 11 cents and maintains a near 90% profit margin.[16]
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join:2008-04-27
Miami, FL
They can start by removing the "send text message" from their websites and only allow it for customers only when the log into the web portals on the website, where that feature would become available.
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