Check your mobile bills, my friends. Three of the big four cellular phone service providers are upping their per-message SMS rates for many by a whopping 50%. It all began with Sprint Nextel, then Cingular, and now Verizon … they’re all lining up to take advantage of the unwary. That’s the bad news. The good news is that this remarkable leap in rates may allow you to jump ship on your current cellphone contract.
MobileTracker has some interesting coverage on what they’ve deemed the SMS price increase club.
I’ve yet to see any convincing justification from the industry. By gosh, someone might even say that the sudden across-the-board increase in text messaging pricing constitutes price fixing. Now I wouldn’t say that, of course, but someone might …
Three years ago, I learned about the hidden costs of text-messaging the hard way … with a 52 page long phone bill and a $150 charge for my pre-teen’s text-messaging spree. d’oh!
[tags]SMS, text messaging[/tags]