Get Today's Headlines on your cellSMS text messages: the ultimate ripoff
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For all you text message addicts out there, there's a terrifying calculation over at blog A Gthing Science Project of just how much it costs you to send a text message. For example: Cost to transfer 2560 songs: From my ISP: $1 Via SMS messaging: $15,339,212.80 Blogger Sam also links to a post that points out that SMS text messaging was a $100 billion business in 2007. What a gigantic scam. |
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Posted by David Reese @ 11:54 PM Tue, Jan 29, 2008
By the way - everytime you download a song through your ISP, a corporate media executive, a cellphone executive, a rockstar, his manager, and the baby Jesus all cry: all for different reasons but they cry nevertheless.
Posted by Richard Gomez @ 11:02 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
What really irks me is that the Wireless carriers do not give us the tools to monitor and manage sms text messaging so that we don't get stuck with exhorbitant charges. Is SMS a ripoff? Yes, very huge ripoff, but don't add insult to injury by gouging us when that inevitable teenage message count goes over our package limits.