How much are all those users paying in phone contracts? A lot more than $40 each. This is Facebook commoditizing its compliments: break the SMS cartel, eventual

How much are all those users paying in phone contracts? A lot more than $40 each. This is Facebook commoditizing its compliments: break the SMS cartel, eventually reduce mobile carriers to ISPs, users pay less for their phone contracts and the money they save goes somewhere else (whether Facebook can capture much of that is another matter).