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Ever thought about how ridiculous the prices of cell phone text messages are? If your provider charges 5 cents for a 100 character text message, that works out to $500 per megabyte. It’s nuts. Finally, congress is taking a look:
Congress questions high cost of texting
From the article:
The price of text messaging has doubled industry-wide in the last three years, and Congress wants to know why.
Sen Herb Kohl, chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee in the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter Tuesday to the four major wireless carriers–AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile–asking them to explain the dramatic price increases for text messaging services…
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