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Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging

Posted by timothy on from the funeral-will-be-awesome dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We've heard many times and from multiple sources that text messaging is declining. There are multiple reasons for this (BlackBerry Messenger, Apple's iMessage, and even WhatsApp), but the biggest one is Facebook (Messenger). Facebook is slowly but surely killing the text message. As a result, the social networking giant is eating into the traffic carriers receive from text messaging, and thus a huge chunk of their revenues."

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  1. Re:Moving texts between cell sites by allo · · Score: 4, Funny

    let epsilon be greater than zero

  2. Re:Rediculous markup by fa2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    actually it's infinity percent markup since SMS costs telcos nothing at all...

    Great, now let's tunnel IP over SMS and get infinite, free data bandwidth