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CommentWednesday, March 28, 2007

Text Messaging = Price Gouging? OMG! WTF?

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Government Involvement

Perhaps the government could help with this issue? http://www.mindreign.com/en/mindshare/Technology/SMS-Fat-Cats-Ripping-Us... seems to think so... But I agree, it is a complete rip off - where does it stop?

Its a major rip off. On top

Its a major rip off. On top of it, txt messages could be compressed, allowing much more be sent for the same amount of bytes. However, the truth is, the cell phone companies want to make as much off of txt messagers as possible, which means making them send as many txt messages as possible - so, txts are limited to 160 uncompressed characters per message.

Unfortunately, most people don't realize how big of a rip off it is, and accept these outrages prices.

GOUGING

cingular oh i'm sorry at&t is going up to 20 cents thats  wrong i have my internet with them also i guess they want me to switch back to dish tv

Dude, you're so right, cell

Dude, you're so right, cell phone companies are gouging us again! I use Alltel and I've watched their rate go from $0.08 last year to $0.15 as of April 20 according to my latest bill. The bastards just want to force us to pay for a package, which I really don't need. I HATE cell phone companies!!

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