What’s up webfolk? The last time I wrote for the mobile phones blog I was wondering what customers of T-Mobile were going to do now that AT&T was going to be taking over. I have been able to do my own little poll since the time that I wrote that last post and the few friends that I do have that are on T-Mobile have no desire to be on with AT&T for one reason or another. Two of those people told me they were going to eventually switch over to Sprint and the other three were planning on moving their service to Verizon after their present contract was up. That’s right I knew 5 whole people that were going to be affected by that merger and none of there seem to be to happy about it. I don’t think that those five speak for the majority but I did think it was interesting that all of them were planning on moving on once AT&T was their carrier, talk about having a bad reputation.
Well let’s change gears a bit and talk about something else that may very well be going away from the landscape of the cell phone market pretty soon. I am not talking about another phone carrier either although it will effect how they do business in the future. I am referring to text messaging mainly and the fact that cell phone carriers have been milking the text message for all it’s been worth. It cost them relatively nothing to handle yet they have been making a mint off of them for a whole lot of years take last year for example as cell phones in the US alone recieved approximately 2 trillion text in 2010!
We have all seen those news reports of out of control cell phone bills being charged to customers that have no idea what there texting limits are and end up with monthly cell phone bills in the thousands of dollars range. Now granted that the person texting is usually a teeneager that apparently has a parent that has no idea how much the younger generation relies on the SMS or the text message. To those parents that receive those surprise sky high cell phone bills it’s your own fault for giving your kid a cell phone in the first place. If they want a cell phone so badly guess what you need to get a job to pay for that phone, my kids already know this will be the deal for them when they get to that age.
That would be another topic if I wanted to continue with that line of thinking but I will leave that there for now. On to the future of texting and SMS and why it will see a rapid decline in the near future. One of the things that I loved about having a blackberry back in the day was being able to messenger anyone else that had a blackberry and not have it cost me anything extra. Well now the folks over at Apple are about to do the same for all Apple products with their own version of the blackberry BBM which you will come to know as iMessenger. If you would like to know more about the iMessenger app than just click that link you just passedon by. Basically it’s their version of the RIM’s BBM service only it will serve all iPhones,iPads and iPod touches which potentially will wipe out a few billion text messages and their charges in the very near future. More bad news for all the cell phone providers and their text messaging cash cow is that the folks over at Google are working on a similar messenger service for all their Android phones as well. When that happens you can almost expect to hear a loud wimper as all that easy money the cell phone carriers have been making off of it’s customers for all these years will dry up. Don’t you worry about them though as they have already figured out a new way to get our money with their new tiered charging system for data downloads. In case you did not understand that last statemen that means that unlimited data plans for one fee will be a thing of the past and that my friend will be the topic of yet another post sometime in the near future.
Until next time kudos to you peruser 
Dave
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