Is the US Economy Going Nuts?

Oh, yes, and this is snow below. Our first snow in Siberia which appeared on September 17th. Hello winter and global… what – freezing? Or it is a part of the global weather shifting?

Well, besides obvious housing and financial market problems, Telco companies, which are low in count but high in subscription numbers, seem to be getting greedier in the US than ever before:

The four companies are the nation’s leading wireless carriers (Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile). All together, they serve about 90 percent of the mobile subscribers nationwide.

The cost to send a text message has gone up 100 percent since 2005. Text messages were commonly priced at 10 cents per message sent or received in 2005. (RECEIVED! See related post.)

The sharp increase in rates could make consumers less accepting of mobile marketing via SMS.

As of the end of September, the rate per text message will have increased to 20 cents on all four wireless carriers.

(via Mobile Marketer)