Verizon To Charge Content Providers $.03 Per SMS 260
An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Verizon is going to start double-dipping by charging both consumers AND content providers for SMS text messages. Verizon has informed content partners that it will levy a $.03 charge for messages sent to customers, effective November 1. From RCRWireless: 'Countless companies could be affected by the new fee, from players in the booming SMS-search space (4INFO, Google Inc. and ChaCha) to media companies (CNN, ESPN and local outlets) to mobile-couponing startups (Cellfire) to banks and other institutions that use mobile as an extension of customer services.'"
email? (Score:5, Funny)
Did they send an email informing everyone of this?
Re:email? (Score:5, Funny)
If they did, I'm charging them to read it.
Obligatory Verizon Math Post (Score:3, Funny)
So, by Verizon Math, $.03 is equal to $3 dollars, right?
Re:email? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:email? (Score:5, Funny)
I'll be glad to take your lawsuits, guys! Once we get the new Litigation Surcharge out of the way.
That'll be 99 cents per dollar that you're seeking in damages, plz.
Re:email? (Score:0, Funny)
No, they sent an SMS.
Re:email? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They have it all wrong (Score:3, Funny)
...Assuming that you already know you don't want the call.
I usually don't find that out until after I pick up.
Re:Timing is suspect (Score:4, Funny)
Hey Pal! Stop posting facts to counteract Slashdot's Messiah Worship / conspiracy theory groove thing!
Re:cancel your verizon subscription today (Score:4, Funny)
so now verizon is charging other people money to *call you*. aren't you alrady paying verizon to have a phone number just so people can call you and send you messages.
I don't how this differs from the way the real world works.
Verizon is a Las Vegas hotel room. Blackjack may be included, but the hookers and gratuities to both the bellhop and the hookers aren't.
Re:email? (Score:5, Funny)
they're the same thing, sir.
Re:They have it all wrong (Score:4, Funny)
>May they evaporate as the stock market does!!!
I have a new curse to add to my repetoire. Many thanks.
Re:email? (Score:4, Funny)
That'll be $1.10 per dollar that you're seeking in damages, plz.
Fixed it for you...
Re:email? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:email? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:email? (Score:3, Funny)
I think you mean .01 cents.
Re:They have it all wrong (Score:3, Funny)
Not here in europe. My cell phone provider charges a flat fee (20 euros a month) and I get to call and send how many SMS messages I wish. Well, less than 1500 SMS messages a day.
Yeah, well, that's all well and good but we have better pizza.