mynewsjunkie.com — Representatives from Verizon, AT&T, and Cricket will be faced with questions from US Senators on why those short 160 character SMS messages are so darn expensive these days. Text messaging can cost from .01 cents to...
Jun 15, 2009 View in Crawl 4
dougman82Jun 16, 2009
Five years ago, Verizon was charging me 5 cents per message over my monthly allotment of 100.
plopfishJun 16, 2009
Could it be on C-Span? <a class="user" href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&amp;tID=5&amp;src=atom&amp;atom=todays_events.xml&amp;products_id=287014-1">http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?ma ...</a>
plhofmeiJun 17, 2009
Hi,I have a sports car. My car REQUIRES premium fuel with it's very high turbo charged compression, or it'll knock. When everyone's gas prices were $4.30/gal, mine were $4.60. My response every time I heard someone complain about gas prices: quit your bitchin', if you don't like it then drive less.Seriously, if gas went up to $20 a gallon tomorrow, unless as cheeser83 said that there was anti-trust violations, I'd expect the government to stay out of it. I would be calling my congressperson to that effect too.Let's let the free market be free, folks. If you don't want a free market, go live in North Korea, I think Communism/Socialism is still the thing there. In the meanwhile, leave the rest of us who value our freedom (and our free market) alone.
osko2052Jun 18, 2009
In Mexico, it costs 1 peso to send a text message. One US dollar is comparable to 13 pesos.
influsionJun 19, 2009
Stop buying cell phones.
idc5Jun 20, 2009
And a boatload of taxes and fees on top of that
raptorlightningJun 21, 2009
The free market cannot exist without Democratic control.Without everyone having a voice in companies, they're just psychopathic children running amok sucking up everything they possibly can with no thought to who or what they're hurting.
secrityJun 21, 2009
The "Baby Bells" were divested from Ma Bell on 1/1/1984. I worked for AT&T at the time and was involved in assigning and inventorying plant equipment during 1983.
sulthernaoJun 21, 2009
Oligopolies ARE FREE MARKETS. Perfect Competition doesn't mean Free Market.
rodbroSep 3, 2009
full testimony here:<a class="user" href="http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/Senate-testimony-wireless-0609.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/Senate-testimony ...</a>