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Word broke yesterday that carriers are dragging their feet on text-to-donate for political campaigns. The Obama and Romney campaigns and their supporters find themselves completely at the mercy of the wireless carriers. If those carriers decide not to let people donate to political campaigns via text message there is not a lot that can be done about it.
While the Obama and Romney campaigns' attempt to use text messaging is currently playing out at the FEC, this all comes back to the FCC. After all, even if the campaigns win at the FEC, the carriers can still simply refuse to carry the campaigns. And the fault for that is squarely on the FCC.
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Public Knowledge Blasts FCC Inaction on Text Messaging
Today Reuters reported that wireless carriers are delaying text-to-donate for political campaigns. You can read the story here.
The following is attributable to Michael Weinberg, Vice President, Institute for Emerging Innovation:
“Carriers should not have the power to drag their feet and prevent people from donating to political campaigns. For five years we have been demanding that the FCC make it clear that carriers do not get to decide what consumers can and cannot do with text messaging.
“The fact that this is even an issue is Chairman Genachowski’s shame. The FCC continues to ignore the fact that text messaging exists and is used billions of times each year. It is well past time that the FCC make it clear that consumers – not carriers – get to choose what they do with text messaging.”
Tell the FCC to Protect Text Messages Just Like it Protects Phone Calls
For five years, Public Knowledge has been asking the FCC to give text messaging the same type of protection that it gives to voice calling. Central to that is an assurance that wireless carriers do not get to cut you off just because you take a position they don’t like. Tell the FCC it is time to make sure that wireless carriers cannot cut off your text messages just because they don't like what's being said.
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[#printed] => 1 ) [links] => Array ( ) ) Late last night AT&T confirmed that they are once again raising the price of text messaging on consumers. The current $10/1000 message plan is being eliminated, leaving only the $20/unlimited plan for consumers who do not want to pay $0.20 per message. This change follows AT&T’s announcement in January that it was eliminating both the $5/200 plan and the $15/1500 plan.
At the very least, this constitutes a 100% increase in text messaging prices for the over 70% of adults who send and receive less than 1000 text messages per month. It is a 400% increase for customers who send and receive less than 200 messages per month (over 50% of adults send and receive 300 messages or less per month, so that number is not insignificant).
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At the very least, this constitutes a 100% increase in text messaging prices for the over 70% of adults who send and receive less than 1000 text messages per month. It is a 400% increase for customers who send and receive less than 200 messages per month (over 50% of adults send and receive 300 messages or less per month, so that number is not insignificant).
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At the very least, this constitutes a 100% increase in text messaging prices for the over 70% of adults who send and receive less than 1000 text messages per month. It is a 400% increase for customers who send and receive less than 200 messages per month (over 50% of adults send and receive 300 messages or less per month, so that number is not insignificant).
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Follow @mweinbergpkOne of the hardest things about growing up is learning how to face hard problems. The easy impulse is always to try and ignore a hard problem and hope that it goes away. The flaw in this strategy is that it almost never works. In fact, it usually only makes the problem worse. Oftentimes, it makes the problem worse in ways that you never could have expected. Eventually there is a moment where you realize that the only way to solve the problem is to face it head on, even if that means making some hard decisions. That is the moment you grow up a little bit.
And thus, we find ourselves considering today’s filing by Public Knowledge and the National Hispanic Media Coalition about text messaging and the Universal Service Fund.
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And thus, we find ourselves considering today’s filing by Public Knowledge and the National Hispanic Media Coalition about text messaging and the Universal Service Fund.
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And thus, we find ourselves considering today’s filing by Public Knowledge and the National Hispanic Media Coalition about text messaging and the Universal Service Fund.
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And thus, we find ourselves considering today’s filing by Public Knowledge and the National Hispanic Media Coalition about text messaging and the Universal Service Fund.
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Follow @mweinbergpkT-Mobile recently informed companies who use short codes to connect with T-Mobile customers that the process for code approval is going to change. The good news is that there is now an option to speed up the process. The bad news is that if you are not a Fortune 500 company, it is going to cost you.
As regular blog readers will remember, one step in the long, expensive process of activating a short code (those five or six digit numbers you use to text donations to charities or votes for American Idol) is getting individual approval from each of the carriers to access their subscribers (you read that right). With T-Mobile, this part of the process takes about 30 days and costs $500.
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As regular blog readers will remember, one step in the long, expensive process of activating a short code (those five or six digit numbers you use to text donations to charities or votes for American Idol) is getting individual approval from each of the carriers to access their subscribers (you read that right). With T-Mobile, this part of the process takes about 30 days and costs $500.
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As regular blog readers will remember, one step in the long, expensive process of activating a short code (those five or six digit numbers you use to text donations to charities or votes for American Idol) is getting individual approval from each of the carriers to access their subscribers (you read that right). With T-Mobile, this part of the process takes about 30 days and costs $500.
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As regular blog readers will remember, one step in the long, expensive process of activating a short code (those five or six digit numbers you use to text donations to charities or votes for American Idol) is getting individual approval from each of the carriers to access their subscribers (you read that right). With T-Mobile, this part of the process takes about 30 days and costs $500.
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Earlier today, the Mobile Internet Content Coalition (MICC) filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to act to make certain that text messages can “flow without interference.”
The MICC release, with a link to a letter filed with the FCC, is here.
The following statement is attributed to Michael Weinberg, staff attorney for Public Knowledge:
“This latest filing again demonstrates that it is far past time for the Commission to act on our petition to protect text messaging. Arbitrary price increases and unwarranted content restrictions threaten the health of a vibrant sector of our economy. Consumers and free speech will be the losers if this trend keeps up without any Commission action.”
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