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Average text messages per user are down, for the first time ever. See http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/text-messaging-declines-united-states/ http://bit
by millstone 14y ago
Average text messages per user are down, for the first time ever. See http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/text-messaging-declines-united-states/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/text-messaging-decl... .
The article blames Facebook and Apple's iMessage, but the price of text messages has to be a factor as well. On AT&T, it's $20 a month for unlimited messages, or 20 cents per, in and out.
- pyre 14y agoThe 20 cents per incoming message is the bogus part. Especially when you get spammed, and have to pay to receive an unsolicited advertisement (and the fact that telcos don't do much to curb this because they just pull in the money off of it).
- vacri 14y agoA friend of mine works in a company where the managers demand every nagios alert gets SMS'd, no matter how minor. They literally receive multiple hundreds of SMSs every week. Expanding into the US, the tech in the SF office had to upgrade his cell plan. Later in his first week, he had to upgrade it again. Then again. Ops keep telling management about just how bad this policy is, but management like have a paper-trail for blamestorming.