Verizon the nickel and dime company of the cell phone world. let me get this straight they are charging their customers 0.20 per text message, and not they want to charge companies 0.03 per text that their customers use. They are going after the part of the business that brings them 0.20 per txt. It sound like double dipping, let see how many companies are just going to stop supporting Verizon wireless. I use so many of this SMS services, like Google, Twitter, and Facebook. this companies don’t make revenue on this, but they want to start charging them. I am so glad I am not a Verizon customer.
Verizon has decided to start asking for $0.03 per message from anyone who wants to send mobile-terminated messages to its customers, possible strangling SMS-based services like Google SMS, Yahoo! oneSearch. The move will also penalize any other company that uses text message notifications for its customers (though the change won't affect rates for mobile-to-mobile messaging.) Like others, Verizon used to charge a fraction of a cent to text their subscribers, during which time lots companies built up SMS notification services for everything from social networking to banking — services which may now be too expensive to operate.
Now that the userbase of (and companies' dependence on) such services is pretty huge, mobile terminated texting is kind of inevitable. In other words, all the SMS-dependent companies can't live without reaching Verizon's customers, so Verizon is in a position to pretty much charge whatever they want. And that's exactly what they're doing, because they're very classy. [RCRWireless via BGR]
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