Content Providers To Put In Their 3 Cents
I just read that Verizon will begin charging content providers $0.03 for every message they send to Verizon subscribers.
According to the article on RCR Wireless, the carrier said that “the new fee was necessary to cover the carrier’s overhead in delivering MT messages.”
The fee will apply to standard and premium programs but not to free-to-end-user, mobile giving, or non-profit organizational programs.
That’s all, folks. For more information, check out the article.
Tags: content provider, free-to-end-user, mobile giving, premium, text, Verizon
October 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Here’s an update from Wireless Week:
“Verizon Wireless said today that contrary to reports last week, it has not decided to increase per-message text fees for content aggregators from 1 cent per message to 3 cents.
“The prospect of an increase is just one proposal and Verizon could not act unilaterally to implement it, a company spokesman explained this morning.
“Initial reports last week cited a letter from Verizon to aggregators in which the wireless operator said the increase is effective Nov. 1.
“That was a misstatement, the nation’s second-largest wireless operator said today.”
http://www.wirelessweek.com/Verizon-Text-Fee-Hike.aspx