Comments on: Verizon Wireless says “text messaging not going up to $1,000,000 per text”

By: Wrong again

Wrong again — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:31:23 +0000

Wrong again. Verizon communications is a publicly traded company. Verizon wireless is not. It’s a separate division of Verizon Communications. Owned in partnership by VZW and Vodaphone.

It’s absolutely utterly impossible to buy shares for Verizon Wireless.

By: wrong

wrong — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:24:27 +0000

New York Stock Exchange: Verizon Communications Inc.

” Overview

Verizon Communications Inc., headquartered in New York, is a leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication innovations to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America’s most reliable wireless network, serving nearly 69 million customers nationwide. Verizon’s Wireline operations include Verizon Business, which delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to customers around the world, and Verizon Telecom, which brings customers the benefits of converged communications, information and entertainment services over the nation’s most advanced fiber-optic network. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 228,600 and last year generated consolidated operating revenues of $93.5 billion.”

By: lefty

lefty — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:52:49 +0000

@Madmike

Verizon Wireless is not a publicly traded company. Do a little research. Thanks.

By: tiredofbs

tiredofbs — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:38:41 +0000

I believe the SMS had its 20th anniversery this year. I don’t think most people are complaining because of the fee, they worry about the downstream impact. If other companies begin to be charged for sending a text, that company might stop providing the text service or charge. 160k costs $0.20 and not a whole lot has changed over the years. I don’t get it. All of the providers are greedy with SMS. God forbid if the number of SMS are causing congestion, upgrade your network, stop charging $20/mo for unlimited. Its getting old. Thank god for Blackberry Messenger and most the people I communicate with have it as well. No 160k limit either. Yes, different technology, but a great alternative. Oops I guess I shouldn’t have mentioned that. I’m sure someone at a wireless company will want to charge us for each message now and claim its a per message licensing fee from RIM.

By: tony

tony — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:36:06 +0000

i think the reason that this might make people mad is because if they add an extra fee for companies like myspace or cnn to send text alerts, then those companies may just not support verizon anymore. 3 cents doesn’t sound like a lot but if you are sending 10 messages/day to 20 million verizon customers, that’s $600,000.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:09:49 +0000

I just like complaining. I mean, C’mon – My name is MadMike. It’s kind of pointless and uneventful if I can’t complain about something. I mean, I can only bitch about Hippies for so long.

God, I hate Hippies.

By: christina

christina — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:24:34 +0000

Didn’t text messaging start in ‘01? My first cell phone had text messaging and it used to take hours to go through. Lol!

By: JustMe

JustMe — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:14:59 +0000

@phoneguy

Very nicely put. Thank god someone else understands.

I tell ya, some people will find a way to complain about anything, even when it doesn’t apply to them.

By: phoneguy

phoneguy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:26:14 +0000

you guys are all so freakin stupid. This has nothing to do with the current .20cents per message that all carriers are charging their customers. This has to do with content subscribers who buy tens of thousands sometimes into the billions of text mesage in lump sums. These are the same companies that are charging you as customers the $10 premium txt plans so that they can send you a ringtone. Verizon wants to raise the amount that these companies buy in at. Has nothing to do with you or screwing the customer…

By: Joseph Singer

Joseph Singer — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:49:48 +0000

Never have dealt with Rogers in Canada, eh?

By: MadMike

MadMike — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:17:45 +0000

It has nothing to do with CDMA vs GSM vs String & Paper Cups. Verizon is a publicly traded corporation that thinks its shareholders are more important than its customers. They see text messaging is popular, so they come up with some bullshit excuse to raise the rates.

BG’s Ninja caught that, disclosed that, and Verizon saw how many people ripped shit about it and decided to come up with that 5 paragraph PR song and dance to wipe the egg off their face.

Plain and Simple.

By: vaxick

vaxick — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:50:11 +0000

So if Verizon went out of business all you would cry that AT&T isn’t being nice either.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:58:38 +0000

GO GSM cdma needs to go

By: bob

bob — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:34:28 +0000

Gauntlet is spot on. Text messaging is a small overheard for them, isn’t congress investigating why these rates have gone up so much? I can’t wait to get rid of verizon, I HATE supporting what they do. They’re the reason we (USA) is so far behind other countries in our mobile technology.

Verizon, stop trying to nickel and dime every person that comes near your network!

By: Gauntlet Down

Gauntlet Down — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:18:29 +0000

>>> …we are exploring ways to offset
>>> significantly increased costs for delivering
>>> billions upon billions of text messages each
>>> month…

What a crock.

Per message costs have plummeted, not risen.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:50:07 +0000

nice job kelly, glad you posted a follow up, verizon isn’t all that bad it seems

By: JustMe

JustMe — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:42:03 +0000

To be honest, as long as they don’t raise the cost of unlimited texting I don’t really care what they do.