[IP] You might be paying $1,000 per MB of SMS

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Debi Jones <debi.jones@gmail.com>
Date: July 29, 2007 1:55:08 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: You might be paying $1,000 per MB of SMS
Reply-To: mojo@mobilejones.com

Most mobile phone subscribers love texting.  And they love that it  
saves them money over making phone calls.  Ten to twenty cents for a  
communique versus $.10 per minute for voice is seductive, indeed.

But have you ever gone through an exercise to determine how much per  
MB SMS is costing you?  This comparative cost exercise demonstrates  
why carriers/operators continue to receive the lion's share of their  
data revenue from SMS.  At $600 - $1,000 per MB, what is standard  
margin for the telcos is a web company's wet dream.

http://mobilejones.com/2007/07/27/you-might-be-paying-1000-per-mb-for- 
sms/

for IP if you wish

...Debi Jones

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