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From: SMS
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:17

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Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 09 Jul 2009 00:20:52 -0700 Bill Z. wrote:

> Besides, what makes you think a fifth, sixth, or seventh competitor would
> undercut the current big four's texting rates, when the big four
> themselves won't?  Sprint is still hemmoraging customers, T-Mo hasn't
> seen any signficant growth in th last six months- why aren't they
> slashing texting prices to drum up business?  Perhaps they already know
> there's nothing to gain.

It's pretty ironic that prepaid texting rates are so much lower than 
postpaid texting rates.

No doubt the carriers figure that most prepaid customers aren't going to 
sign up for a texting plan, so it's better to set the rates at a level 
where they'll actually use texting.

I think the $33 PagePlus/Verizon Talk N Text plan (1500 minutes/1500 
texts) is a plan that postpaid carriers hopes that few people learn 
about. But the lack of a "free" handset makes it unappealing to people 
that are bad at math.

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