Comments on: Payforit better for consumers than Premium SMS http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/06/payforit_is_better_for_consumers_than_premium_sms_charging.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roland Holmes http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/06/payforit_is_better_for_consumers_than_premium_sms_charging.html/comment-page-1#comment-62338 Roland Holmes Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:22:11 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/06/payforit_is_better_for_consumers_than_premium_sms_charging.html#comment-62338 Er, Hats off to Bango, but aren't they just providing data to support the obvious point.... On the PC internet, Web rapidly replaced mail etc for placing orders and learning about things before ordering. Obvious that the same will happen on phones, with SMS only being used for alerting and peer to peer ultimately. If I were an SMS aggregator I'd be petrified by Payforit - it will force my users to move to a "scam free" mode of operation..... Maybe Bango is trying to push WIN, MX, 2Ergo etc. into its killing ground. RH Er, Hats off to Bango, but aren’t they just providing data to support the obvious point….

On the PC internet, Web rapidly replaced mail etc for placing orders and learning about things before ordering.

Obvious that the same will happen on phones, with SMS only being used for alerting and peer to peer ultimately. If I were an SMS aggregator I’d be petrified by Payforit – it will force my users to move to a “scam free” mode of operation…..

Maybe Bango is trying to push WIN, MX, 2Ergo etc. into its killing ground.

RH

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