In the "they don't get yet" dept., wireless carriers struggling to improve margins through the use of camera phones have been total laggards at implementing interoperabiltiy standards. When I participated in this effort myself, there was tremendous foot dragging. It's really up to Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and others to complete this. Most of them don't understand the fundamental power of their own industry: there is exactly zero use for a single phone. That is, there's nobody to call. It's an OLD version of Metcalfe's law. You remember that one...
You would think when a spokesman is quoted (in the linked Forbes article, above) saying the following, that information would "trickle up" to Denny Strigl...but it's a long way to him...everything good takes time:
"We initiated SMS interoperability last fall on a Thursday without any public announcement," says a Verizon spokesman, "By Friday the number of text messages traveling on our network had tripled," he says. A formal announcement was made the following week. For the industry as a whole, the number of SMS messages sent in 2002 doubled over 2001 according to IDC.
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