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April 15, 2005
SMS Costs Too Much
SMS costs too much and high costs are limiting SMS adoption. When WiMax and WiFi become more available, the carriers will have to compete ... finally.
Click through for full article.With the high cost of the SMS brokering services (especially now that providers are forcing all commercial senders to have shortcodes!), products that use SMS heavily are going to have to pass the cost to the user. This severely limits adoption.
A big part of the problem here is that mobile providers are just making too much money off of text messaging. An article in Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News (2005-03-15) had some unsurprising statements:
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Posted on April 15, 2005 08:49 PM by cell p392.
Filed in Phones under cell phones.
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