OMG Did U C What U R Paying 4 Texting?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 2, 2008 @01:36AM from the stop-texting-me-dammit dept.

theodp writes "If you thought gas prices were rising too quickly, writes CNET's Marguerite Reardon, check out what's been happening to text messaging. Since 2005, rates to send and receive text messages on all four major carrier networks have doubled from 10 cents to 20 cents per message. If the same pricing was applied on a per-byte basis to a single MP3 song download, it would set you back almost $24,000 according to one estimate. So why are carriers gouging their customers so? Because they can, concludes Reardon."

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Stupid article by MrNaz · 2008-07-02 02:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I see this math done all the time with all the OMG! responses.
The answer is simple: Write IM clients that run on your phone. The carriers can then charge whatever they please for SMS, people will just stop using it.
Next problem?

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Re:Some data 4 U by jez9999 · 2008-07-02 08:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

How about the companies make an arrangement between each other to share the profits from senders' payments?

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