At last someone’s taken a look at the US operators. Whether it’ll get anywhere… I don’t know:
As reported by the Associated Press:
A key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is asking the nation’s top four wireless carriers to justify the “sharply rising rates” they charge people to send and receive text messages.
In letters to top executives at Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile, Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl said Tuesday that he is concerned that rising text messaging rates reflect decreasing competition in the wireless business.
Kohl chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. His inquiry comes as European Commission regulators are threatening to impose a cap on roaming fees for text messages sent by Europeans traveling outside of their home nations, in an effort to force prices down by as much as 70 percent.
Especially true when you consider the CTIA just released the June 2008 wireless quick facts and the numbers are pretty amazing… 75 Billion text messages were sent just in June! It’s a good thing too since we’d been telling people there were at least 60 billion messages sent every month in the U.S. We had just got our US short code approved in 2006 when they announced 12 billion for the same period compared to 5 billion for June 2005. So, from 5 to 75 billion or a 1,400% increase in 3 years ….the fastest growing communication technology in history doesn’t look like going out of style any time soon.
http://www.interlinkedmedia.com
Especially true when you consider the CTIA just released the June 2008 wireless quick facts and the numbers are pretty amazing… 75 Billion text messages were sent just in June! It’s a good thing too since we’d been telling people there were at least 60 billion messages sent every month in the U.S. We had just got our US short code approved in 2006 when they announced 12 billion for the same period compared to 5 billion for June 2005. So, from 5 to 75 billion or a 1,400% increase in 3 years ….the fastest growing communication technology in history doesn’t look like going out of style any time soon.
http://www.interlinkedmedia.com
Especially true when you consider the CTIA just released the June 2008 wireless quick facts and the numbers are pretty amazing… 75 Billion text messages were sent just in June! It’s a good thing too since we’d been telling people there were at least 60 billion messages sent every month in the U.S. We had just got our US short code approved in 2006 when they announced 12 billion for the same period compared to 5 billion for June 2005. So, from 5 to 75 billion or a 1,400% increase in 3 years ….the fastest growing communication technology in history doesn’t look like going out of style any time soon.
http://www.interlinkedmedia.com