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| OMG Did U C What U R Paying 4 Texting?                             |
|   from the stop-texting-me-dammit dept.                            |
|   posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 02, @09:36 (Cellphones)     |
|   http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/02/127232 |
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[0]theodp writes “If you thought gas prices were rising too quickly,
writes CNET’s Marguerite Reardon, [1]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, [2]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.”

Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/07/02/127232

Links:
0. mailto:theodp [Email address: theodp #AT# aol.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9982251-7.html?tag=nefd.top
2. http://gthing.net/the-true-price-of-sms-messages/