The big carriers are using the per-text rates to drive captives, er I mean hostages, er rather subscribers to buying bundled minutes that, statistically, most will never use the full allotment, thereby overpaying. I have been on the lowest possible Sprint voice minute plan, but unlimited data & SMS for the past two years. 24 x 7 push-pull email and averaging over 3000 text message a month; voice is so 2004. Virgin Mobile will continue capturing the SMS addicted market with 1-cent-per-text rates!
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The big carriers are using the per-text rates to drive captives, er I mean hostages, er rather subscribers to buying bundled minutes that, statistically, most will never use the full allotment, thereby overpaying. I have been on the lowest possible Sprint voice minute plan, but unlimited data & SMS for the past two years. 24 x 7 push-pull email and averaging over 3000 text message a month; voice is so 2004. Virgin Mobile will continue capturing the SMS addicted market with 1-cent-per-text rates!