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iMessage Coming This Week: A Wake-Up Call for Wireless Carriers 
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  By IBTimes Staff Reporter | October 10, 2011 7:56 AM EDT 
Wireless carriers in the U.S., who are earning as much as 20 cents for sending and another 20 cents for receiving a text message, are worried that this profitable source of revenue will no longer be available to them, once Apple's new instant messaging application, iMessage, is released on Wednesday.

With iMessage in place, any user of an iPhone, iPad or even iPod touch can send an unlimited number of messages from their iOS 5 device to any other iOS 5 device, for free.

The launch of Apple's BlackBerry Messenger-like application may force service providers to revise or even scrap charges for text messages. 

According to a Topnews report, Craig Moffett, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, estimated that the wireless industry pockets more than $20 billion in revenue from text messaging. 



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