nytimes.com — TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.
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Closed AccountDec 29, 2008
umm, unlimited package as in unlimited internet (browsing downloading, email), unlimited text messaging, unlimited international calls, unlimited night&weekends, unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited unlimited.u know, unlimited?
Closed AccountDec 29, 2008
If "deregulate" now means "spend even more on regulation, but be incompetent," since that's what Bush did...But that's NewSpeak. Deregulation used to mean SPEND LESS.
maaddmaxDec 29, 2008
Carriers do have to pay a middle man to send to other carriers. But if its an internal text then yea it doesnt cost them anything. But AT&T to Sprint does cost them like .001 per message...
Closed AccountDec 29, 2008
Starbucks makes good coffee, consistently. I'm all for trying out the smaller shops as well, but a consistently good cup of joe for maybe twenty cents more than the competition is not a bad thing.I'm talking about their coffee, btw, not their extra-frap-whip caramel salty ristretto. That stuff is a little much, but hey: people like it.As to your comment about dedicated baristas, quality staff etc etc.; I think that the Starbucks culture must be a little bit different in Australia (I'm in Canada). I have always found Starbucks baristas to be friendly, or at least no more icy than the coffee shop down the road.
jakereillyDec 30, 2008
The very fact that they keep raising prices confirms that there is NO competition for text messages for the 4 major carriers. If there were, then more options would crop up, or the prices would be fair. The only thing holding back verizon from making texts a dollar each is its collusion with the other 3 and its own morality. That is not a free market.Done deal. Irrefutable.
ebaypaul75Dec 30, 2008
The wonderful world of cell phone companies... Again...
polycarp87Aug 24, 2009
Too bad it doesn't notify the sender that you did not receive the message, and most people assume you are just being a dick for not replying.That might work with an older crowd.
redsnake2006Sep 13, 2009
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