The Truth about text messaging

[BAM!]

an article on the NYTimes reveals the allegedly price fixing on the wireless text messaging.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

[Nova]

Capitalism. You don't like it then don't pay for it.

[Zefram]

It pays for all the infrastructure.

You can't expect the telco's to gave out free text messaging services, don't you ;)

[stlouis1]

the fact that now we know its costs them nothing to charge us for txt messages, glad i dont use txt messages. zef raises a good point

something has to pay for the infrastructures which we all know need upgrading. especially given the fact that their selling us plans for high speed connections with high download caps and then throttling them at peak hours because teh networks cant handle what they're selling. they might as well make money where they can to upgrade that

either way, they'll probly keep screwing us one way or another