T-Mobile to Implement a Twitter Tax on Texts?

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Business customers on T-Mobile USA could start incurring a surcharge per each SMS delivered beginning October 1st. A charge of ¼ cent per SMS will be charged to the company sending the text according to reports.

The move mirrors a similar, but much more costly, effort from Verizon Wireless two years ago. In 2008, Verizon told its business partners it would begin charging three cents per text alert, but abandoned the plan after tremendous backlash from text companies that resulted in coverage in mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times.
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bunch of greedy people anyhow, tax this, raise the price on that....meh people and their greed irritates me.
 
Don't SMS messages already cost enough to send? I mean, they cost the carrier less than a penny for cryin out loud.

The Cell companies are getting out of control
 
k1pp3r said:
Don't SMS messages already cost enough to send? I mean, they cost the carrier less than a penny for cryin out loud.

The Cell companies are getting out of control
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sms messages cost something like 1/1000th or less of a penny last I checked
 
The fact that SMS is not a priority packet makes it ridiculous that they charge whatever they do to use them in the first place. Sometimes I don't get texts from people until hours later, or sometimes not at all. :rolleyes:
 
They already charge you to receive them (and on top of that they charge a vast amount for the actual bandwidth texts use -- in fact texts come via the control channel that would be reserved even if nobody was using texts). You try to charge Twitter to provide a service that they aren't making money off of and they just might stop offering it. "Sorry, we can't offer twitter updates via text on Tmobile anymore. Here's a deal on Sprint where we can continue to offer text messaging updates."

Not to mention all the people that stay with Tmobile but maybe don't need that unlimited messaging plan anymore once their twitter habit is broken.
 
who uses text to twitter anyways? get a damn android phone already.. I guess this is a way to promote the sales of their smart phones? --- "if you don't want to be charged, you can upgrade to our blibbidyblah which uses an internet app!"

I am stuck with T-Mobile and so far its been "meh" -- but my G1 is a badass tool most of the time, no matter where I'm at or what I need to do.
 
What mod are you running on your G1? The G1 came out almost two years ago, and feels slow as hell. Of course, I do need to upgrade to the newest cyanogen mod version, but I don't know how much faster that's actually going to make mine.
I'm waiting on the G2, and holding out hope that my co-worker's buddy that works for Apple is right about his assertion that the iPhone is coming for Verizon and T-Mobile. Not that i'm an Apple fanboy, quite the opposite, but as smartphones go, no one has beat it yet (closed OS concerns aside).
 
Bring on the country-wide, high speed wireless ! Let's run these greedy bastards out of business once and for all!
 
one swell foop said:
What mod are you running on your G1? The G1 came out almost two years ago, and feels slow as hell. Of course, I do need to upgrade to the newest cyanogen mod version, but I don't know how much faster that's actually going to make mine.
I'm waiting on the G2, and holding out hope that my co-worker's buddy that works for Apple is right about his assertion that the iPhone is coming for Verizon and T-Mobile. Not that i'm an Apple fanboy, quite the opposite, but as smartphones go, no one has beat it yet (closed OS concerns aside).
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In my experience with both a friend's G1 and my own Magic, Cyanogen 5 (2.1) is much faster than 1.5. Try out CM, but get 6 (2.2), though THAT might seem a little slower (new "drawer" menu takes a ton of resources).
 
TechLarry said:
Bring on the country-wide, high speed wireless ! Let's run these greedy bastards out of business once and for all!
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The government auctioned off the air around you to the highest bidder - guess who had the money to be the highest bidder? Those wireless networks you talk about? The cellular companies are the ones that own the spectrum to do WiMax/LTE.
 
Um so don't use twitter .. . . . wow strange how hard that solution was.
 
k1pp3r said:
Don't SMS messages already cost enough to send? I mean, they cost the carrier less than a penny for cryin out loud.

The Cell companies are getting out of control
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They cost the carrier nothing. SMS runs on the same carrier signals as incoming/outgoing calls.
 
They charge ME for those texts. Now they want to charge me AND the person sending the text? Get the hell out!
 
Methadras said:
They cost the carrier nothing. SMS runs on the same carrier signals as incoming/outgoing calls.
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Agree, and the same with regular text messages, they also don't cost the companies anything, they all are getting a free ride on unused portions of paid for channels. Its so funny to hear them say they have to up the price of text messages because a billion or more are sent every month or what ever the amount, when it costs them absolutely zero. All their hype in marketing is geared for the uninformed.
 
Tax? That is a government function. They can add a fee, but tax?
 
does that mean i get to cancel my service with them and break the contract :D
 
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