-s

why this passion to bring “justice” to the pricing of a peasly, unnecessary luxury item like texting?

-because congress discovered the TelComm’s are making more money than they are.

The worst part, (for congress) is, of course, the TelComm’s are doing it *Legally -and SOMEHOW, they do it without massive deficits.
-perish the thought :p

have a look: [links at bottom of page]

one blogger did some math on the subject and came up with some eye-opening results.

-SMS messaging crossed the crossed the $100 Billion mark (annual) in 2007 (!) -that’s more the entire movie industry (with virtually no overhead, relative to movie making costs) [1]
-the cost of transferring one megabyte using SMS pricing is $1,497.97 (!)
-should you desire to transfer a 4mb song, $5,991.88
-cost to transfer 2560 songs: via SMS messaging: $15,339,212.80 [2]
-no wonder congress is moaning..

(also, it circumvents GovCorp control of information and news. (though i’m sure the CIA loves it)
[plus, they haven't figured out to tax this bounty into the stone age yet]

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As astounding as the above may be.. if you take the talking points after the 3:00 minute mark in the video you can almost directly transpose the argument to:

***The Banking Industry*** -as a whole and in relation to ATM’s. -only it’s way worse..

SO where is the outrage and inquiry into the banking industry’s (newly consolidated) monopoly?? (and price hikes)

They brought down (several) industries, then got their puppets in congress to fork over trillions of the peoples money so they could by up any remaining (hard) assets and banks. -at fire sale cost.

-I’m sure your all familiar with the plethora of new fees and charges the majority of banks now charge as of 1/2009
-no need to elaborate.

If congress wasn’t up to their necks in complicity with the banks, of the wholesale destruction of the U.S. we might have heard something on this by now.

Instead, we get cries over text messaging.

Yup, we have the best Democracy money can buy.

the saddest statement of all: We *willingly* keep voting these treasonous crooks back into office..

Links:
[1] $100b article
[2] Math whiz’s article -very well done.

-s
(Turn off your TV)

Maybe Congress should figure out why I had to cancel my landline because it costs twice as much as my cell plan!

Bullshit. Please show me the land line that costs more than a cell phone.

I also notice that the airlines charge the same amount for flights, all at exactly $227, raising and lowering their prices within hours of each other. Is this collusion too?

All the phone companies are doing is, saying maybe talk shouldn’t be cheap; maybe, talk should be worth something. I agree talk shouldn’t be cheap.

This whole thing is ironic. We all have been taught that talk is cheap, and it is.

However, hearing cheap talking Senators beating their chest and saying phone companies are over-charging for a teenager luxury item is a hoot.

Congress having public hearings to just yap about something considered egregiously wrong and illegal is stupid and unproductive.

Both the American public and congress should just do something or stop complaining. No one is forcing anyone to buy these plans.

If American’s and their congress where smart with their money there wouldn’t be an economic crisis.

It’s really simple, STUPID AMERICAN’S Begets STUPID a CONGRESS.

I love to watch multi-billionaire, corporate CEOs calmly tell outrageous, bald-faced lies to Congress and by extension, to every single one of the American people.

The very best part is when you can tell from their expressions and the tones of their voices, they could care less everyone knows they’re flat-out lying.

I find such breathtaking arrogance endlessly fascinating.

Once the 2 companies were established it became quite easy for them to raise funding for the FCC auctions of new bandwidth, buy up other carriers and consolidate their organizations. But all the while, there have only ever been 2 (sometimes 3 with the PCS spectrum auctions in the late 1990s) cellular providers in a given area.

Nextel isn’t technically a cellular service- they bought up a bunch of 2 way radio spectrum and started using it for iDEN, which according to the FCC is a “dispatch radio service” not cellular. Hence the PTT feature on all their phones.

So I find it funny to hear the congressman complain about lack of competition in the cellular industry when the government seemed to go out of its way to make competition nearly impossible.

Oh, and don’t forget that the FCC failed to perform its only real duty by defining a digital standard… so now I can’t take my unlocked Nokia over to Verizon, because it won’t work, period. Imagine buying an LG television and only being able to watch the local NBC affiliate… But that’s a whole different thread.

I need to add that some of those stupid people are the same ones who talk about nothing while remaining parked for 50% of a short left turn arrow or who cause accidents while talking or texting about nothing while driving. My mesage to them: STFU! and pay attention to your driving.

Q: Why does a dog lick his balls?
A: Because he can.

My understanding of the technology is that the text messages are sent out over the backend channels of the wireless network that are used for managing the infrastructure. Not even utilizing the voice channel capcities… so I would think, well obviously they are running out of this backchannel space.

But of course, I just came back from France/Italy I there wasn’t one time I could say I was in a public place with people around that I could not find more than one person text messaging. There is no way we are close to the text messaging capacities that these countries are utilizing.