Monday, October 10, 2011

Are Text Message Charges a Thing of the Past?

In 2000, I wrote an article about instant messaging and how its rapid fire/free attributes would make it a critical form of business communication. Text messaging has also become an important business communication tool, but unfortunately its not free. Given the amount of revenue generated by mobile carriers - it won't be free any time soon.
At a time when email and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 cents to receive it.

Paying so much to transmit a handful of words is starting to look as antiquated as buying stamps.
Read more at economictimes.indiatimes.com

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