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The Marginal Cost of a SMS Message is 0
- AndyKelley 18y agoI want to start a business where I sell a mediumly priced device that is made only for texting, kinda like a phone, but has a QWERTY keyboard, etc, and comes with cheap texting service. CHEAP, I tell you. Maybe only a dollar a month. Sound crazy? But everybody uses it, and those cell phone companies need real competition. Even if my company died and I went bankrupt, it would be worth doing America a favor by dropping the insane price down to how cheap it should be. There's no way they would let me use those cell phone towers though, and there's no way I could raise enough capital to build them myself.
- eru 18y agoI do not think users will really want a keyboard. Otherwise they would have already bought them. They have to be big to be comfortable - but then they are too big for the pocket, I guess. (And Qwerty is not exactly the best layout - but nobody seems to care.)
- AndyKelley 18y agoWhat I mean by that is just a device that is made solely for texting and thus does a good job at making it easy. By the way I'm a Dvorak user :)
- eru 18y agoI use it, too. I still have to fork over the money and buy a Kinesis Contoured one day. Or perhaps I will find one on the roadside when I am in San Francisco in fall.
- rrival 18y ago"... Additionally, many carriers have sold their tower assets to third party companies ..." you can lease space on these towers (http://www.cellreception.com/towers/ http://www.cellreception.com/towers/)