Boiling point.
Hey guys, it is me Jared Reitzin, Mobile Storm. I know we like to crack wise here in OTI, but somebody has been needed at me for a while. A new story came out recently and I jut got to get something of my—chest. I am okay. I am alright. Yes, at the same suit I wore last week. I do not have the type of money you had have, but I look good in it because my mom tells me I do.
I am going to get into it here. A story came out about regulators putting pressure on text messaging rights. Yeah, remember that story a couple of episodes back about the proposed New York State Law like a sort of regulate behavioral messaging. Solomon, Richard Bradsky is on SMS regulations size and I actually in behind him a 100%. He joined the petition to the FCC along with the few other free speech rights groups against Verizon wireless for engaging in discrimination. Basically Verizon would not allow these groups, short cost to send text messages on their networks. And they are one of the groups as arrival group and one of them is a controversial group. Mr. Brodsky and other folks think it is wrong for cellular providers to be able to block messages if they do not like the content and I am with you on this one.
Last year the wireless company refuses to allow pro-choice group. The NARAL to use short course to reach members who have signed up to received text messages, Verizon wireless are they enough? Reverse that decision and gave them those rights, the same day that the New York Times put the story on the front page, funny ha? They also would not approve a short code for a company called Webtell which made it cheap and just to make phone calls over cell phones. I wonder why does not approved. These stories really got me thinking about a lot of other issues that I have had for a long time about wireless telecoms. When you are like 40-50 years old and you have not done with your childhood and just all bent up and you wanted to just explode. Well, that is kind of what I feel. So guess what, classes and session, you better listen up.
Carriers, how much longer are you going to try and regulate and control every single transaction? How much longer are going to try to take big trunks or revenue of every piece of contents some of your network? Sure you spend billions and billions of dollars building at your wireless infrastructures. But so did a lot of other companies that provide us with our internet and our telephone. They seem to find a ways to make money without having to take every single piece or they would not go down that road. But come on let us get some facts here. Remember when you could buy domain names and you only could go to one place to do it, $60.00 a month. Domains can now be purchased by anyone. Super quick for as low as $6.00 and from any number of companies, like Go Daddy or any of this other registrars, let us parallel that with wireless centers shall we. Short codes was the equivalent of domains, cost $1500.00 to $3,000 a quarter. You can only buy them from one place new star. How is this fair? Was it fare when Network Solutions was the only place to buy domains from? It takes, here is a funny part. It takes six to eight weeks to get your shortcut approved, possibly longer. Why, because there is an actual person sitting behind a desk, looking it over and testing and approving every single shortcut application. How is that a scale of a business model? Tele-domain up and running these days takes what? 48 hours for DNS to resolve globally. I mean come on. Verizon’s denied short codes to these companies because the carrier did not approve their content.
Should they be allowed to take eight weeks to get a service approved, only to then to reject it because the content does not fall inline with their views? We are talking about free speech here. We are talking about first amendment. What if the internet was on like this? Think about it, just trip on this for one second. What if we have to wait eight weeks to get domain approved by one person, it is some regulatory body and they have the power to decide if I could get on the internet or not get on the internet. We would not have the internet. We would not have it. Think about what the internet has done for society, for cultures, for commerce. Think about how it has made the world smaller. How it has created tremendous opportunity for billions and billions of people. None of this would be possible if it was manage and regulated by good old boys network and yes, that was upon intended.
And another thing, when your shortcut is approved and the carrier will take up the 50% of your content generated from your revenues. From your revenue generate from your content. Imagine every webs on had a fare fee to the IRSP for every bit of revenue they made trough their website. Does not that neutrality ring a bell? If you do not know what that is wike-wikipedia wika-wika. That is the new song. Remember A was wall guarding at 25 when you can only get access to their content, to their information and through their browsers. What happened? Well, what happen were developers and consumers? They pushed and they pushed and they pushed until the walls can tumbling down, like Jericho sitting there with a horn. The whole thing crumbled.
Carriers, it is time you start thinking about what made the internet successful and quickly follows suit. Think about it. You have the credit card information on every single individual in America and you have amazing billing systems that could quickly and easily build them and get their money fast and right away. Maybe not supper right away, but you get the money. Open up your platform to all commerce. Make sure you got approval in provisioning instant, like the in that is. Take a small percentage like a credit card company on every transaction, there will be billions upon billions and billions of them. Are you listening Lisa? Sure you might lose a bit of revenue in the short term, but think of the long tail! The long tail! Think about camping serving ailing AOL, you can not keep your walls up for long, No! No! Can you hear me now? I am Jared Reitzin. I am going back to my office.
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