Senator opens inquiry into rising text messaging rates

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Ducky_Fresh @ Sep 10th 2008 1:42PM

To make more money. Isn't this a capitalist society? Plus people are texting more than talking, so the companies have to recoup those lost revenues somewhere.

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Mike B. @ Sep 10th 2008 2:46PM

what lost revenues? they're still making the money off of the voice plans... probably just not as much on overages cause people are less likely to go over the voice minutes... but it's not like they're losing everything from the voice area... unless it's costing more to supply the texting service they shouldn't be charging more on the texts...

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iofthestorm @ Sep 10th 2008 6:47PM

Bullshit, it probably costs them less than one cent to send text messages. This is just more corporate greed at its best.

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Jamar @ Sep 11th 2008 7:46AM

That's how much I pay for outgoing text when roaming with a foreign SIM on AT&T. And I STILL get free incoming. So AT&T isn't so much recouping lost profit as making an absolute killing.

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