Re: Cell-Phone Bills: Is Text-Messaging Too Expensive? - TIME

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Ronald J Riley \(RJR\)" <rjr () rjriley com>
Date: September 13, 2009 10:12:42 PM EDT
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: RE: [IP] Cell-Phone Bills: Is Text-Messaging Too Expensive? -  
TIME

Lets see, 20 cents/.3=a markup of 66.7 fold.  I repeat that good  
business is always based on an equitable profit and good service.  We  
need antitrust enforcement against cellular service providers.  I am  
fed up with their one sided contracts.

Ronald J Riley

From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:50 PM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Cell-Phone Bills: Is Text-Messaging Too Expensive? - TIME


http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1921373,00.html

"At those hearings, Srinivasan Keshav, a professor at the University  
of Waterloo in Ontario and an expert on mobile computing, presented a  
detailed analysis of all the expenses that carriers incur in handling  
SMS messages. He showed that the wireless channels contribute about a  
tenth of a cent to a carrier's cost, that accounting charges might be  
twice that and that other costs basically round to zero because  
texting requires so little of a mobile network's infrastructure.  
Summing up, Keshav found that a text message doesn't cost providers  
more than 0.3 cent."




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