Messaging And VoIP Apps Hitting Carrier Revenues
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Messaging And VoIP Apps Hitting Carrier Revenues
A lot has been said about the huge influx of messaging and VoIP apps and its impact on carriers. While almost everyone expected these apps to eat into carriers' revenue, no mobile operator admitted this.
A new study conducted by mobile(SQUARED), based on interviews with 31 carriers, confirms that these apps have indeed affected messaging and voice traffic on networks.
BGR reports:
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Considering that texting actually cost the carriers nothing and they use it as a cash cow... Who cares... Screw them. They charge to much for something that costs them a fraction of a penny to send
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I second that
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There is an interesting discussion going about the specifics of SMS delivery on slashdot. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/18/209257/messaging-apps-voip-already-eating-into-carrier-revenue
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Hopefully, a day will come when text messaging charges are eliminated for good. If only people would adopt alternatives more quickly.
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mobile text msg should be free from day one.
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Texting does not cost the carriers next to nothing. The hardware, bandwidth and routing plans cost quite a bit. Every last person who comments on forums like this thinks that their service should cost as little as possible with no limits in speed, number of messages, etc but in reality customer support, hardware, bandwidth and providing a stable mobile carrier platform cost a LOT of money. Get real hippies.
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@Joe. It does not cost them the 1,000 plus per meg they make on texts! You work for a phone company. I wish I could get a data only plan and would just use Skype.
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Once I hear that CEO's can't afford to buy their third vacation home or can't afford to buy their daughter a second BMW, then I believe you post. All these companies are making millions to billion of dollars per year. Companies excutives are the dumbest when it comes to money management skills. When something cost more in their expense category, the only suggestion is, " Hey let's just up the price. " hey Joe, that's the reason why we in this economic mess, greed and bad money management skills.
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AT&T recently killed all but their $20 unlimited texting packages. Presumedly in response to free texting apps & iMessages. I'll just use google voice. So they're just losing another $60 a year from me.
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Hey Joe,You should read up before you run your mouth off. The New York Times had an article showing how it cost the carriers practically nothing to send texts. Look it up. another article below talks about ithttp://www.burningthebacon.com/2009/01/01/the-truth-about-sms/
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Hey Joe,You should read up before you run your mouth off. The New York Times had an article showing how it cost the carriers practically nothing to send texts. Look it up. another article below talks about ithttp://www.burningthebacon.com/2009/01/01/the-truth-about-sms/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss
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The trick is to get the $20 text plan which gives you unlimited mobile to mobile calls to all USA cell networks and drop your plan by $20 to a smaller plan. Since 90% or more of your calls go to cell phones, this becomes ideal.
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Forget the money, in India your SMS are restricted to 200 a day, so you have no option but to rely on whatsapp and other messaging solutions.
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Hate to be the devils advocate ( in this case ) but there is an advantage to SMS/mms and that's that it works cros platform the simplicity of just picking who I want to txt just by there cell number is so much simpler than having multiple apps n services to do the same job.
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Try texting with Zlango messaging https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zlango.zms&feature
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@ Paul - that a devious and clever idea!!! :)
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True. But someone out there is clever enough to figure this out. FaceTime has some way of connecting with people that does not require a phone number.
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A text message is less than 1kb of data, and AT&T charges 20 cents to send and another 20 cents to receive one (even if it is spam). A typical webpage is hundreds of kb of data, as is an email with a picture attachment. Yet sending and receiving those is free. If it somehow costs cell phone carries more money to route 1kb of sms data than it does multiple megabytes of web data, that is their problem, not ours. If this technology truly is this inefficient after this many years it is clearly on purpose as an excuse to gouge customers.
