Link: The End User: Noticing a red flag – Technology – International Herald Tribune.
According to Wireless Business Forecast, SMS.ac was the ninth most frequently visited entertainment site for cellphones last October in the United States.
But it has had enough uncomfortable dealings with customers – both consumers and carriers – that I must advise anyone looking into signing up with SMS.ac to be cautious.
Victoria Shannon of the International Herald Tribune has written this overview of SMS.ac.
The International Herald Tribune (IHT) has issued a clarification (link below)to this story, in which the writer, using inaccurate information provided by a Sprint PR person, misrepresented our relationship the U.S. mobile operator.
In fact, SMS.ac continues to have an excellent working relationship with Sprint.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/27/technology/web.techclarification.php
Innacurate? Well, PR people sometimes let the truth come out, much I’m sure as their employers have trained them out of that habit (no offense folks).
As a person who has used SMS.ac simply on a test basis, I am amazed that legally you are allowed to create as much spam as you do, I had friends that were vocally annoyed that they’d been contacted by SMS.ac.
Of course SMS.ac continues to have an “excellent” relationship with ALL of their partners. They share 50% of their revenue with them. Meanwhile, members are able to create spam “premium” messages that say stupid things like (and I am quoting directly from my own cell phone right now), “Hey Hey Hey what do we have here?!?!” or “Wats crackin big homie?” or “Vanessa Loves Jakub For Life.” Why would I want to pay 50 cents for each one of these messages? It is beyond me. Most of them just say “hello” “hey” “hiya” or many variations of salutations (you get the picture). But they just started showing up last month out of the blue. I DID sign up with sms.ac two years ago, in order to send “free” messages back and forth with some friends, but it wasn’t until now that I got these annoying messages that cost me a lot of money (sometimes I got 6 at one time). I had to call their 888 number to get it taken care of. Replying “STOP” as it suggests you do in each message DOES NOT WORK. I tried it. This is such a scamming business. If I could spam every cellular user for $20 each, I would be loaded.