More SMS
Given Dan and Todd's recent interest in SMS I thought I'd pass on the news that Great Britain cellular networks are now charging each other a three pence per message charge for SMS messages passing between the networks.
While these charges will roughly cancel each other out in respect of text messages sent by the mobile networks' own subscribers, it spells doom for the wealth of web portals that offer free internet-to-SMS text messaging services.
comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:31:08+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Beats the hell out of the US where SMS messages between cellular networks are
(apprently) just quietly dropped. Was trying to coordinate to meet up with a
friend last night, neither of us was in a place where reception was reasonable,
so SMS seemed like a viable alternative (even a preferable one, 'cause nobody
wants to talk on BART).
Comment policy
We will not edit your comments. However, we may delete your
comments, or cause them to be hidden behind another link, if we feel
they detract from the conversation. Commercial plugs are fine,
if they are relevant to the conversation, and if you don't
try to pretend to be a consumer. Annoying endorsements will be deleted
if you're lucky, if you're not a whole bunch of people smarter and
more articulate than you will ridicule you, and we will leave
such ridicule in place.
Flutterby™ is a trademark claimed by
Dan Lyke for the web publications at www.flutterby.com and www.flutterby.net.