Speed Damage wrote: it would cost 25 cents to send or receive a message
That is absolutely crazy! Here, we have 4 mobile networks. With my current plan, I pay 20EURO a month (30$US) and get unlimited texts to other people on the same mobile network. And I can still use that 20EURO for making calls. Otherwise its 9c (0.13US$) to send a text message. Thats the first case I've heard of being charged to receive texts though....
yeah, american mobile networks are good like that. my sister-in-law would complain every time her husband texted her as it cost him to send and her to receive, where a phone call was so much cheaper. thats how some networks in the states make their money.
i get 1c texting to anyone on the same network as me, and 25c texts to anyone who isnt. my phone is prepaid, so i dont make calls with it, instead i use my house phone for calling people. the 1c texting explains why my daughter is too lazy to find me when she wants to tell me something, lol!!
