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Saturday, November 25, 2006
Operators hindering growth of mobile data in the US
This is no news really, but Mike Rowehl's note about US Carriers Requiring Shortcodes - Developer Hostility Hits a New High indicates it's even worse than expected in the US. The key question is, what are they trying to protect? Their pride?
Maybe some things are different also on the user side, as given by my comments on Mike's notes below.
Mike: Sure, at least we have something, European carriers don’t even have SMTP available.
In Europe we access any mail servers on the Internet. In most countries in Europe operators don't put up walled gardens, so any service on the Internet can be accessed freely (but costly).
Mike: I decided to swallow my anger and pay an SMS aggregator to deliver me messages.
Why not use the browser or any of the many Java applications for e-mail instead? That's how it's done in Europe.
Clickatell: Clickatell’s short code has been blocked by T-Mobile due to more than one service(different content from multiple users) sent over one short code which is not allowed and we can not say when other providers could take the same action.
Again, what are the operators protecting?
Maybe some things are different also on the user side, as given by my comments on Mike's notes below.
Mike: Sure, at least we have something, European carriers don’t even have SMTP available.
In Europe we access any mail servers on the Internet. In most countries in Europe operators don't put up walled gardens, so any service on the Internet can be accessed freely (but costly).
Mike: I decided to swallow my anger and pay an SMS aggregator to deliver me messages.
Why not use the browser or any of the many Java applications for e-mail instead? That's how it's done in Europe.
Clickatell: Clickatell’s short code has been blocked by T-Mobile due to more than one service(different content from multiple users) sent over one short code which is not allowed and we can not say when other providers could take the same action.
Again, what are the operators protecting?
