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Title: The truth behind the cost of text messaging Post by: Alex on December 30, 2008, 06:46:18 AM The truth behind the cost of text messaging
What are you currently paying for your text messaging? Is it 20 or 25 cents or are you one of the millions of users who buy a text messaging package with your phone plan for $5 or more every month? Regardless what you pay, you're over paying. Not that this comes as a surprise to many but the New York Times has divulged in great detail how bad your actually being ripped off. Wireless carriers have a "control channel" for sending text messages, This channel is used for that task, in fact every time your cell phone communicates with the tower it uses the "control channel" regardless if you text or not. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/uwfEcgdAg-o/the-truth-behind-the-cost-of-text-messaging |