Verizon Wireless will charge content vendors for sending text messages on their Network

Verizon Wireless has move a step forward to charge for even carrots. Verizon Wireless has informed its partners that it will charge a 3-cent fee for every mobile terminated message processed on its network. Verizon Wireless will start charging from 1st November. MT messages typically include text alerts, interactive voting notifications and SMS search responses. This charge is additional to current MT-messaging fees.

This new fee structure will effect services like Twitter, GOOG411, 4INFO, Google Inc. and ChaCha and maybe to the political leaders. Barack Obama is also using text messaging to keep his supporters with him. To be honest most of these services will stop offering  their service on Verizon as they can not waste their hard earned investment on the charges.  According to Verizon these new charges will apply to only standard-rate and premium programs and will not effect text-giving or free-to-end-user campaigns.

source RCR Wireless News