Bell and Telus to CHARGE for incoming text messages!!! WTF!?

Early today i found out that Bell and Telus will start charging for incoming text messages.  And to think rogers was my biggest worry. SO Far how it’s been in Canada is that you pay for the text messagse that you send and everyone gets free unlimited incoming text messages. For some insane reason Bell and Telus (the ones who want to give us unlimited, inexpencive data) want to start charging for incoming text messages. Why is something telling me this is just some kind of publicity hoax to get people to stay with rogers after so many people are dissatisfied with service. It’s almost like we have no where else to go.

‘Bell Mobility will begin charging customers 15 cents per incoming text message on Aug. 8. Telus Mobility is moving to the same billing practice effective Aug. 24. Until now, their pay-per-use customers who send text messages have been charged a 15-cent fee per message, but it hasn’t cost anything to receive them.’

Why is this stupid?

• you can’t control who your getting text messages from
• it’s not like a phone call where there is time being wasted, this is instant
• The Canadian Telecommunication industry is steeping to a new low, further emptying our pockets in pursuit of greed

Telus Mobility spokes person AJ Gratton implies that the increased usage of text messaging in the past few years is the cause of this new charge.

“The growth in text messages has been nothing short of phenomenal,” Ms. Gratton said, noting Canadians send more than 45 million text messages per day. “This volume places tremendous demands on our network and we can’t afford to provide this service for free anymore.”

Granted Canada has a more sparce network then the US but why are these telecomm companies so interested in selfishly collecting every fucking penny that the canadian consumer has. The canadian covernment set aside 40 megahertz out of a total 105 so that smaller companies could fill the gap and compete against the three big boys and their little brothers.

So far no one has the balls.

~ by fathomthefuture on July 9, 2008.