Are people in the US hooked on paying for things via sms?
 

I am seriously thinking of launcing a site simular to european

VOD solutions offering movieclips payed by sms.

What are your opinion on this

Are USA ready?

in europe they are crazy about this...

I find that after living in the Netherlands and coming back here to the USA that the U.S. market has not really adapted to the whole SMS concept as of yet. In Europe you can use SMS for so many different things other than just text but I think that it is growing here here in US so can't hurt to try :)

Yeah, europe it's big we in the states still use mobiles for talking...

It is not allowed to pay for porn by sms in USA.

Most Americans cannot spell SMS, no less use it

I would stay away from it. SMS is not as big as it is for the rest of the world. For some reason except kids no one really uses it.

No, it's allowed

That's pretty harsh but you might be right they are just now doing gameshows where you SMS in your answer and people are confused as well :/

What porn paysite using sms as payment method in usa?

None that I can recall but that doesn't mean its not allowed. You don't watch TV and see the 3am commericals to get daily 'hot' pictures to your phone for $7.99/wk..

Ah, you mean this. I am not from USA, thats why I ask, because I have another informations. When you talk about this wallpapers for mobile phones, it has some rules in my country. You can sell them but the girl cant have naked some parts of body and it also cant be hardcore. So maybe these rules apply to US also.

I could be wrong but I just see those commericals everynight .. lol they have stars blocking out private areas and say "text now to get you're first image" lol

no american provider will work with you, forget it.

there are lots of people that have already looked into this issue and dropped it.

ps. fallenmuffin is a fucktard, you cant buy porn via SMS, sexy photos are NOT porn. its girls in bikinis they are selling.

Ah, okay. I didn't know if they were nude or not.. in the commericals they have stars over everything lol.

Hehe, its cool we made it clear.

If you want to really talk about SMS and Porn being delivered to mobile phones hit me up, this is what we do for webmasters.
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The fcuking lot.

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they are hooked on everything

The communications companies take too big a cut of your money and you wait a long long time for the payment from what I hear....

American do not know what SMS is. American don't download shit with their phones. Especially when it cost money. Most American carriers won't allow any adult content to be downloaded anyways. I have Verizon and you can't even access any adult material at all, free or otherwise.

well it was also only for purchasing, the downloading should be to you pc

Yes, they take most of the sms price, but its better then nothing and USA is big market to make some money. Its pity that sms billing is not common in US.

It was really nice talking to you :)

I am looking forward to use your service :thumbsup :thumbsup

It will eventually get here.. just going to take a while. Probably at least a good year or more away from SMS billing being commonplace in the states.

And yea, carriers even tightened restrictions on SMS applications/billing. Even if you run.. for example.. an SMS chat service etc, that "in spirit" is adult, but not advertised as such, they will not work with you... or at least shut you off as soon as they find out if you manage to slip through the cracks.

True.

I've been running a few SMS campaigns for the company I work for and I'm at a loss for words how people can't follow basic directions on what to text in. We even have a shortcode that's live but not marketed and getting random people texting into it (hundreds) - guess they're mixing up the shortcode numbers. The most recent, random text message to this "unknown" campaign was:

What
the
fuck?

Hahaha, its maybe time to start to offer such service for them.