bucy wrote:

Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for Verizon, said the company was exploring ways to charge fees to commercial senders of text messages to add a new revenue stream to its wireless business.

“It is not a free service,” Mr. Nelson said. “It didn’t cost us zero to build or to buy spectrum rights.”

This is obscene. The marginal cost to deliver SMS is practically zero.

You know cell carriers take 50% of every freaking ringtone you sell on their network? Bastards.

RE: Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge Senders of Text Messages - NYTimes.com