TABLE OF CONTENTS La Fl che: As-tu quelque n goce avec le patron du logis?
Frosine: Oui, je traite pour lui quelque petite affaire, dont j'esp re une r compense.
La Fl che: De lui? Tu sera bien fine si tu en tires quelque chose.
Frosine: Il y a certains services qui touchent merveilleusement.
Do you have some business with the boss?
Yes, I have a deal which I hope a reward for.
From him? You will be sharp if you get anything.
There are services which bring a lot of cash.
Moli re, L'Avare, 1668, Acte II, Sc ne 4, The Miser
Today everyone's heard of or participated in SMS voting games on TV, in which the viewer casts an "instant" vote for or against a person or situation. In such a case, the viewer sends a premium SMS, which is much more expensive than a person-to-person SMS. The normal SMS-MO price is charged by the visited mobile operator, and a special additional charge is shared between the mobile operator, the content provider, and eventually a third-party SMS interworking network operator, which may also act an intermediate and redistribute this revenue to the content providers.
In this chapter, we discuss the various architectures that allows an SMS-MO of this type to be sent to content provider. Bu first we discuss the classical implementations and their limits. In Chapter 5, we discussed situations in which we wanted to bar the inbound SMS; now we want to attract them and,...
