[126457] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Contacts re email deliverability problem to tmomail.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Sparro)
Mon May 17 11:30:48 2010
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 11:29:09 -0400
From: Dave Sparro <dsparro@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <7BC05F2C-CAAD-43B7-9D8C-557ECA65D585@gmail.com>
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On 5/15/2010 6:38 PM, Graham Freeman wrote:
>
> 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.
Based on what I see in the marketplace today, I think that the average
wireless carrier exec doesn't do the same math. For them, I think it's
more like:
Q: What's better than a service we can charge our users for?
A: A service we can charge our users for, while at the same time
charging somebody else.
