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COMMENTS: Talk is Cheap; Text should be Cheaper
Do you know how easy it is to send a text message? ABC's Elisabeth Leamy told us: a single minute of voice conversation is equivalent to 600 separate text messages. Yet cellphone operators charge 20c per text--for both sending and receiving--for a transmission that costs them 0.3c. "The major carriers all raised their per-text prices within months of each other and they now charge quadruple what they did four years ago." Leamy was covering Senate hearings into possible price fixing to generate those mark-ups. Her advice was to sign up for an unlimited texting plan instead.
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