ChaCha Says They’ll Bail On T-Mobile)
WOW, this may be pretty bad for us, the end consumer. T-Mobile wants to start charging an SMS tax.
For example, Twitter, Facebook, Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo, ChaCha, etc...all those companies who use sms text messaging will be taxed, they will have to pay a fee to send you those friendly text messages, that you already pay T-mobile for!
This is bad. Really bad. Imagine if Bank of America says "well we are cancelling free notifications via text to T-Mobile customers, T-Mobile is taxing us now, so sorry, bye bye T-Mobile customers"....or worse yet Bank Of America starts charging T-Mobile customers for notifications via text.
Imagine the millions of angry Twitter customers who use the sms features. Yikes, no more twitter sms on your Vibrant, just because you are using T-Mobile! No more Facebook sms either, oh goodness. What about ESPN texts, oh oh.
Well guess what, chacha, is in uproar! They are one of the top sms providers, and they have promised to drop all T-Mobile customers if T-Mobile goes ahead with their tax.
One less feature on our Vibrant.
I'm calling T-Mobile and letting them no I'm not happy about sms providers dropping T-Mobile customers. Have your voice heard also!
Maybe T-Mobile should change their $20 Text Messaging commercials to include a disclaimer. *No ChaCha, No Facebook, No Twitter sms*
On a serious note, I don't use twitter/facebook sms. What troubles me is important texts. For example emergency texts, Amber Alerts, library texts, banking texts, not to mention many universities communicate with students via texts, especially for on campus emergency notifications. Twitter aside, I think this can have many serious implications, especially for govt organizations or state run schools that just don't have the funds for something like this.
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ChaCha Says They’ll Bail On T-Mobile)
WOW, this may be pretty bad for us, the end consumer. T-Mobile wants to start charging an SMS tax.
For example, Twitter, Facebook, Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo, ChaCha, etc...all those companies who use sms text messaging will be taxed, they will have to pay a fee to send you those friendly text messages, that you already pay T-mobile for!
This is bad. Really bad. Imagine if Bank of America says "well we are cancelling free notifications via text to T-Mobile customers, T-Mobile is taxing us now, so sorry, bye bye T-Mobile customers"....or worse yet Bank Of America starts charging T-Mobile customers for notifications via text.
Imagine the millions of angry Twitter customers who use the sms features. Yikes, no more twitter sms on your Vibrant, just because you are using T-Mobile! No more Facebook sms either, oh goodness. What about ESPN texts, oh oh.
Well guess what, chacha, is in uproar! They are one of the top sms providers, and they have promised to drop all T-Mobile customers if T-Mobile goes ahead with their tax.
One less feature on our Vibrant.
I'm calling T-Mobile and letting them no I'm not happy about sms providers dropping T-Mobile customers. Have your voice heard also!
Maybe T-Mobile should change their $20 Text Messaging commercials to include a disclaimer. *No ChaCha, No Facebook, No Twitter sms*
On a serious note, I don't use twitter/facebook sms. What troubles me is important texts. For example emergency texts, Amber Alerts, library texts, banking texts, not to mention many universities communicate with students via texts, especially for on campus emergency notifications. Twitter aside, I think this can have many serious implications, especially for govt organizations or state run schools that just don't have the funds for something like this.
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ChaCha Says They’ll Bail On T-Mobile)