Comments on: SMS rate-increases spell trouble for SMS-based mobile services http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2007/01/08/sms-rate-increases-spell-doom-for-sms-based-mobile-services/ Thought streams on the future of tech and media Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:27:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: james http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2007/01/08/sms-rate-increases-spell-doom-for-sms-based-mobile-services/comment-page-1/#comment-312 james Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:50:15 +0000 http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2007/01/08/sms-rate-increases-spell-doom-for-sms-based-mobile-services/#comment-312 companies do not pay the same rate consumers do. when companies send text messages to users, it is actually an opportunity for the carriers to double dip.. they still charge the user 15 cents for the message, then they charge 4info too (but not 15 cents). some of the earlier, larger companies to do messaging deals with the carriers (yahoo, aim, etc..) actually get paid by the carrier for texts sent through their systems companies do not pay the same rate consumers do. when companies send text messages to users, it is actually an opportunity for the carriers to double dip.. they still charge the user 15 cents for the message, then they charge 4info too (but not 15 cents).

some of the earlier, larger companies to do messaging deals with the carriers (yahoo, aim, etc..) actually get paid by the carrier for texts sent through their systems

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