Verizon Follows Sprint, Raises Price Of Unbundled Messages
SAMETHING SIX MONTHS AGO!!!!!
This is nothing new all the carriers did this six months ago to encourage bundles. Next year it will be over $.30 a text to send and receive a msg. Other words you got to buy a bundle or pay the huge price.
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I have yet to understand why anybody wouldn't utilize text enough to encourage the purchase of a bundle, in this modern era. Texting is the new thing, jump on board!
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Many people aren't interested because it's cheaper to use voice minutes. For those into using IMs, for example, it would would be easy to use a few hundred messages in just an hour when you're stuck on the interstate after a car crash. Overages from text messages for some people are much easier to accrue than voice overages.
In another line of thinking, one might wonder why it's necessary to raise prices when the commodity of data transfer should be getting cheaper. Are text messages really that much of a bandwidth hog to even be charging what they are? If the packages were cheaper, more consumers would be apt to buy them. Not only that, the messages often referred to as "text messages" are actually short messages. It's annoying t...
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In another line of thinking, one might wonder why it's necessary to raise prices when the commodity of data transfer should be getting cheaper. Are text messages really that much of a bandwidth hog to even be charging what they are? If the packages were cheaper, more consumers would be apt to buy them. Not only that, the messages often referred to as "text messages" are actually short messages. It's annoying t...
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It's not about how much bandwidth a text message uses, which it's very little. You can have minimal signal and an sms will still go through whereas on a voice call, it'd probably drop or at least be so static filled you can't hear anything. The article said VZW did it to encourage people to buy the packages. Packages are more of a guaranteed revenue than the per message charge and it raises their ARPU.
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Exactly. It's about having guaranteed and consistent revenue versus having to estimate future revenues based on variables.
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