Packetizer News

We received notification this week that AT&T plans to increase the cost of sending an SMS message internationally from 20 cents to 25 cents. In a day and age when we would expect the cost for text messaging to decrease, only in the United States would we see such stupid pricing increases.

There has been a lot of speculation about who is buying Avaya. We know who is it is, but who is it really? Here is our best guess: Alcatel-Lucent. Why not? They need an enterprise play and this would be the best move they could make to get a bigger foot in the enterprise space.