Since I’m clued to the mobile market since the last years, I was following like all of you the financial crisis in the US market and worldwide. Today I have just been touched, but I’m not really sure if it is the crisis or something else. Verizon and many others US mobile carriers have increased pricing of SMS. An unexplained change while there is nothing new added to the service, there is probably something removed that many verizon customers are reporting that they are no longer recieving delivery confirmation notice after sending SMS messages - something odd !
U.S. Senator Herb Kohl have sent last month an antitrust inquiry asking for explanation about this price rising. Verizon did not provide any explanation and I don’t think if there are any. Kohl wrote :
Also of concern is that it appears that each of companies has changed the price for text messaging at nearly the same time, with identical price increases, This conduct is hardly consistent with the vigorous price competition we hope to see in a competitive marketplace.
Therefore, I specifically ask each of your companies to explain why text messaging rates have dramatically increased in recent years. Please explain the cost, technical, or any other factors that justify a 100% increase in the cost of text messaging from 2005 to 2008.
What do you think ?
Tags: competitive marketplace, delivery confirmation, financial crisis, mobile carriers, price competition, senator herb kohl, sending sms messages, text messaging, thousands of dollars, verizon, verizon customers
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