SMS-economies (yeah, just cloaking a Twitter-post again)
Steve Rubel (yes, Edelman, that is) asks the same question I did (implicitly) few days ago: how is Twitter going to cope with that SMS-bills? I really have no idea, but Rubel claims that “In the good ol’ United States of America, the receiver pays the SMS bill”. the comments on that post seem to be quite indifferent, but I guess the “recveiver” means the receiving network, not the individual customer? (at least from a ‘european’ standpoint, there’s no way the receiver is to bear the cost). some yanks wanting to comment? (please!!!) how are kick-ass services like Google Calendar’s SMS-reminders (I - thankfully - receive at least two each day) not going to be loss-leaders?
anyway, It’s probably obvious, that merging web2 with ‘oldschool’ mobile services is the thing to do right now.
AFAIK it’s true that there are US-carriers where the single costumer has to pay for receiving SMS….