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.

I agree that it is obscene, but unless I Verizon plans to tell me PRIOR to sending a message that there is a charge attached, I plan on refusing to pay for it on my Sprint plan. They can try to back charge, but I will call and have those charges removed.

This is absolute bullshit, and just another reason to fire companies that attempt to steal money from you on a constant basis.

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