[126454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Contacts re email deliverability problem to tmomail.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Mon May 17 04:51:27 2010
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 08:51:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <15527192.01274086189734.JavaMail.root@jennyfur.pelican.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> That may be, but it would surprise me. The carriers still get paid
> by virtue of charging the recipients for the SMSes, and in this
> particular case cutting off this line of communication is leaving
> money on the table, as email->SMS deliverability is desired yet
> optional/secondary functionality of the app.
Paying to *receive* SMS? And I thought the UK mobile industry was doing a good job of screwing its customers...
In all seriousness, I wonder if they're using the same platform for their email gateways world-wide, and / or rate-limiting globally on the assumption that they're *not* making any money, as would be the case in many other locations? Especially if the Tmobile US operation is tech-driven (or otherwise) from the German parent.
Regards,
Tim.
