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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Fido / October 2003SMS/Messenger Wars between Carriers
hihi, Just received a flyer from Rogers, they are now offering MSN, Yahoo, ICQ in their service now. Their pricing is kind of cool. For example, messenger services cost 5 cents a message, yet regular SMS is 15 cents a message. As usual, you get 2500 received messages for free. I think Fido should once again review their SMS policy, I find that not so fair to charge received message at $0.10 each. Like, how can CanadaPost charge the receipient for a letter when the sender already paid for it?? I hope that one day Fido will have MSN in their line of service too. Phillis > I think Fido should once again review their SMS policy, I find that > not so fair to charge received message at $0.10 each. Like, how can > CanadaPost charge the receipient for a letter when the sender already > paid for it?? yeah, i didn't agree with the "receiver has to pay" thing also. in fact, i send *less* SMSes to people on fido knowing that they have to pay also. if anything, fido could have ramped the send fee to 15cents instead. On 1 Oct 2003 13:07:47 -0700, Phillis_c says... > I think Fido should once again review their SMS policy, I find that > not so fair to charge received message at $0.10 each. Like, how can > CanadaPost charge the receipient for a letter when the sender already > paid for it?? I agree completely. > I hope that one day Fido will have MSN in their line of service too. I hope they won't. ;) The less contact they have with M$, the better. I mean, AOL is not that popular here. Most of my friends use MSN and Yahoo. I think it would be better if they have MSN instead of AOL. Phillis > On 1 Oct 2003 13:07:47 -0700, Phillis_c says... > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I hope they won't. ;) > The less contact they have with M$, the better. > I mean, AOL is not that popular here. Most of my friends use MSN and > Yahoo. I think it would be better if they have MSN instead of AOL. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > I hope they won't. ;) > > The less contact they have with M$, the better. Fido can't have agreements with MSN, Rogers signed an exclusive agreement with them. > Fido can't have agreements with MSN, Rogers signed an exclusive agreement with them. Remember that Microsoft/Gate invested big money into Rogers. Rogers is bound to service Mr Gate's derrière. Microsoft also invested/signed deals with Bell for similar monopoly-enhancing tactics. Didn't ICQ and Rogers have an agreement like that not too long ago? Look at it now > Fido can't have agreements with MSN, Rogers signed an exclusive agreement with them. > Didn't ICQ and Rogers have an agreement like that not too long ago? Look at > it now > > > Fido can't have agreements with MSN, Rogers signed an exclusive agreement > with them. Ok the agreement expire, but how long? I think Rogers users were able to send messages to ICQ users since 2001. |
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