Re: Text messaging from web url

["kinchyuk" <alex@xxxxxxx>]

If you look at some of the cheap'n'cheerful SMS providers, eg Lycos,=20
they route your text via operators outside the UK - the favourite=20
place at the moment seems to be Singapore. This inevitably leads to=20
delays, and increasingly often lately the messages just aren't=20
getting delivered.

To give you a quick insight, the UK mobile networks have introduced a=20
compulsary termination charge per text of 3p. That means that if you=20
want to deliver a message to any UK mobile, it'll cost you 3p (plus=20
VAT). The way the cheap'n'cheerful operators get around it is send=20
via an operator that doesn't have these interconnect agreements in=20
place, and just "dump" the traffic onto the UK networks, who
deliver=20
it on a best efforts basis.

If you take 3p, add the VAT, transaction fees for accepting card=20
payments or deductions for the telephone top-up, plus the cost of the=20
infrastructure, you'll see that 6p inc VAT isn't making anyone much=20
money at all. In fact if you spend =A330 on a top-up you get your=20
credits for 5.4p inc VAT. There's hardly any margin in that!

Would you be interested in paying a fiver a month to remove the=20
adverts?

Alex

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Alex Monaghan" <ha@m...> wrote:
> I thought the idea of paying for service was to get rid of adverts=20
etc...
>=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kinchyuk [mailto:alex@xxxxxxx...]
> > Sent: 03 July 2003 11:46
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Text messaging from web url
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Peter
> >
> > Yes there is a small signature at the end of each text. It'll
only
> > ever be at the end, would be really annoying to have it at the
> > beginning!
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "White, Peter"
<peter.white@b...>
> > wrote:
> > > Alex
> > >
> > > Does the 128 limitation mean that the messages will include
> > adverts?  If so,
> > > will they always be at the end of the message, or at the=20
beginning
> > (I hope
> > > not!)?
> > >
> > > Pete
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alex Kinch [mailto:alex@xxxxxxx...]
> > > Sent: 02 July 2003 10:55
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Text messaging from web url
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > message: what you want to send, max 128 characters
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Alex
> > >
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