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Originally Posted by CellGuy
Hey simple great site. But if its sign up and eat all you can (with you footing the bill for every WAP push) how do you stop consumers spending more in SMS that they have paid for membership? Or are you assuming that only a small % will do this so its worth the economic risk....just curious.
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Consumer SMS and data plans in the US are different that that of Europe therefore allowing us greater flexibility in what we can offer them and what they or we incur as costs. Our delivery agreements also allow us greater control with regards to internal costs so our economic structure in the offering is not in the negative. If this was such a negative as you see it then what would be the benefit to offer it?
SMS is based on Mobile Origination (MO) and Mobile Termination (MT). These are two charges, one for sending and one for receiving. Each carrier is different on how they charge end users for this message charges. For WAP (Internet) services it may be unlimited or it may be a fixed about of data downloaded for a set price (i.e. 10 MB of data download for $9.95 per month). If it is fixed then yes the end user will incur charges at some point but that can not be avoided. For example, if you text vote for American Idol (which is originated by the user) there may be a charge for the SMS that you send. This generally ranges between .02 - .05 cents per message. However, this is not part of Mobile Pimp so this part does not apply nor is a text message sent by the end user part of a data download package.