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This is slightly outside my area of expertise, but if I understand correctly many of our clients will be affected.

Verizon is about to start charging content providers 3 cents per text message. Do look at the comments on this entry: you’ll get a much better understanding of the move.

Verizon mostly doesn’t support WAP Push, so SMS is the only way for a content provider to push information to a customer. Expect huge numbers of content providers to drop services to Verizon. Any full free service will either have to stop supporting Verizon customers, or go to an uncontrolled (and lower quality of service) SMS gateway.

Don’t forget, Twitter had to drop SMS updates in the UK due to costs. The Verizon fees are much higher.

All this is on top of the problem that most Verizon devices won’t support clickable URLs in SMS anyhow. What I fail to understand is that our WinMob Smartphone on AT&T wouldn’t let me click on a URL either. Perhaps it was a technical glitch: there was no http:// in the URL. At least, that’s what I hope.