The obvious truth about text messaging: you're getting ripped off

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Chris B. @ Dec 29th 2008 12:42AM

The owners of the infrastructure are going to get reimbursed for their investments, one way or another. Each owns a proprietary means to channel what we want or need through their platforms - we have no alternative. We can't prove collusion - it's just like gas stations across a street from one another: same product, price matching (they'll call it competition), different competitor - but no collusion despite the price matching.

Our Federal Government knows about the price matching, cost of providing data, and limited choices given a particular market - but the practice goes on unabated.

The price of TMing goes down, the price of something else will go up - the carriers have a fixed cost of doing business, and TMing is one of the unregulated products going over the airwaves. And, our alternative is...? We don't have one.

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