Comments on: Canada SMS rip-off: 4,900% mark-up

By: technically incorrect

technically incorrect — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:14:00 +0000

No, I posted what you more or less regurgitated.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22840

look at the comments.

From my link and comments, which leads back to popular mechanics story

“A space scientist at the University of Leicester in the U.K. did the math and discovered that this is several times as much as it costs to transmit data from the Hubble space telescope back to Earth. And most of this cost is pure profit for the phone companies, who are able to deliver text messages for nearly nothing by piggybacking them on other transmissions. ”

ect ect..

P2Pnet wasn’t the first. P2Pnet didn’t break nothing. Your analysis is a regurgitation of the comment I posted.

May 22: http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4263454.html
May 22: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=e9fff782d573016b8016be39f2e9fc28&t=1529756
Prior to June 6 & updated: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how_to/4318204.html
June 6 My comment with references posted: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22840
Your June 11th story: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/23046

There have been other cost analysis prior to this, but the popular mechanics/howardforums one’s are the most recent.

I believe DSLreports may have this as well going back further.

By: surfer

surfer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:43:32 +0000

Jon posted my analysis of SMS prior to this story ‘breaking’, so in fact, we exposed this before they did.

stw

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:55:04 +0000

Collusion. isn’t it obvious?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:21:48 +0000

Since their little trick is out in public and being investigated by Congress, I expect the prices will go down soon.

This doesn’t affect me as I hate a cell phone and have never had one in my life. Don’t expect to be changing that anytime soon.

The idea that the Teleco is doing the spamming tells you when they need a bit more money they are happy to spam you. Not everyone will complain about being billed by their own carrier. No wonder they don’t allow you to refuse them.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:35:09 +0000

Bell SMS spams their own customers telling them to buy “rocket sticks”. Rogers spams their users. So I don’t see why Telus shouldn’t be able to SMS spam their own customers as well.

They are the law.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:29:05 +0000

What about the text SPAM messages. I swear that it is Telus sending them just to charge me more. Also the spam comes as 2 messages. Half the message is writen on one text and the rest on another. With my phone there is no way to not accept them as Telus locks up their phones so you don’t have these choices. I hope the hackers are working on the unlocks for my phone. That is the best I can hope for.