SMS in North America

Why SMS is not hot in USA?

[tntpower]

Hello

I am very curious, why SMS (Short Message Service) is not hot in North American? I notice few major websites provide SMS for visitors, which is totally different in Aisa (China, Japan, Korea). In Asia, revenue brought by SMS is as big as advertisement for portal websites.

Does that because North America mobile carriers do not want to offer such service? Or because of culture/rate?

[incrediBILL]

In the US there is a huge backlash against email spam and telemarketing at the moment that may be impacting SMS.

Personally, if my phone started buzzing with all sorts of SMS garbage I'd probably put it under my car tire and slowly back over it until it crushed into a nice satisfying pile of techno dust.

[Dayo_UK]

In the UK sms messaging is huge.

People constantly text each other - esp kids and chavs.

Sms spam does exist - but not to much. (Normally dating rubbish)

[BlackRaven]

"esp kids and chavs. "
what or who are chavs?

[BlackRaven]

lol.. did u mean Chaps?...

[Dayo_UK]

Lol - did a search on chavs as I thought some people here may not have heard of them and found a chav test :)

Google search on chavs - wiki article pretty much sums it up.