VOIP Relays

Engadget notes: If you’ve been paying attention to mobile carriers’ SMS pricing lately (and something tells us you haven’t) you’d be surprised to discover a fairly disturbing trend amongst providers: price hikes. …. . What’s most insidious about the inflated costs is the fact that SMS data is particularly low-bandwidth, and analysts say that the price increases aren’t related to higher operating costs — these companies are simply gouging customers f.

  Because of course, as wireless broadband becomes more ubiquitous (giving customers access to services like AIM, ICQ, GTalk, etc. ), the need for the phone company’s SMS service will all but disappear - and none too soon, in my opinion! .

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