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[Edward Wesolowski <edwes AT idisplay.com>]

"In Europe and Asia, SMS has become a social phenomenon among teens and 
young adults. But with some European operators reporting that SMS charges 
account for 15 percent or more of their total revenue, U.S. carriers are 
eager to cash in on the new opportunity."

Smart Mobs in the U.S., not yet, but soon, yes?-)
Ed Wesolowski
At 02:03 PM 8/13/03 -0400, you wrote:

> >There are also problems of interoperability between different wireless
> providers.
>
> SMS between service providers has been rectified.
> http://www.wirelessweek.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA209048
> April 8, 2002 Top Five U.S. Carriers Now Offer SMS Interoperability
>
> >but could we also just use SMS? who here SMSs? and has a big phonebook?
> >just curious since all the russians used it and my buddies in ireland
> >perfered it over the phone or email since it works everywhere.
>
> My phone is SMS capable, but I turned off the extra service ($3/month for
> 100 SMS messages, $.10 each after, Cingular) of SMS when none of my friends
> had it. The network effect bites both ways. For the few friends that do have
> SMS service, instead of a web gateway I use an email gateway. So I send a
> 160 character email to
> <their_phonenumber>@<a_special_subdomain>.<theirwirelessprovider>.com
>
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