Cell Phone News > Verizon Wireless Massively Raises Rates For Text Messaging Services
It’s no surprise that some things may be getting more expensive these days, especially as companies start dealing with the fallout from the financial crisis — but it appears that some are going a bit overboard. There’s a bit of an uproar among some, as Verizon Wireless is slapping a surprising 3-cents-per-text-message fee on top of every mobile terminated text message. That basically affects any company that provides some sort of SMS notification system or content service, massively increasing prices. As some have noted, most of those services bought text messages in bulk, where it cost around 1 cent per message. That means the cost of sending text messages just quadrupled. If you’re already worried about the economy and working on tight margins, that could certainly put some companies out of business entirely.
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