It seems that the report just says that the US carriers are shoddy, while all our European and Oceanic./ ers say they have no problems with SMS.
Should this come as a surprise ? Maybe its time the US carriers realised that the reason people there don't uses SMS is because it's broken and needs to be fixed.
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What puzzles me is that anyone cares whether SMS messages arrive or not. Most of us have voice mail on our phones? Why does anyone want to turn their cell phone into the electronic equivalent of a doggy leash?
Hmm, let's look at this :
Voicemail requires me to call me provider to get the message at $0.xx/min
Voicemail requires me to have a pen handy to write down any useful notes
Voicemail requires me to remember my callers return #
Voicemail requires me to stop a conversation so I can listen to a message
Voicemail requires me to call it back if I forget the message.
With SMS, i have the message in text, the sender's callerID is on the message, if they enter any phone #'s I can extract them with a button press, The text is always available, I can reply to the sender without making a call, and If i'm in a meeting I can read and respond to urgent messages with out being too antisocial.
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It seems that the report just says that the US carriers are shoddy, while all our European and Oceanic ./ ers say they have no problems with SMS.
Should this come as a surprise ? Maybe its time the US carriers realised that the reason people there don't uses SMS is because it's broken and needs to be fixed.
Hmm, let's look at this :
Voicemail requires me to call me provider to get the message at $0.xx/min
Voicemail requires me to have a pen handy to write down any useful notes
Voicemail requires me to remember my callers return #
Voicemail requires me to stop a conversation so I can listen to a message
Voicemail requires me to call it back if I forget the message.
With SMS, i have the message in text, the sender's callerID is on the message, if they enter any phone #'s I can extract them with a button press, The text is always available, I can reply to the sender without making a call, and If i'm in a meeting I can read and respond to urgent messages with out being too antisocial.
I'll use SMS over Voicemail any day of the week
Ok, here's some karma points, What about
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