And This is Why I Don't Have a Cell Phone

[teddog]

Wireless carriers to add text charges

Bell and Telus are going to start charging 15 cents for received text messages starting in August. No only is this going to suck if you have talkitive friends, but imagine the problems with spam. Yeah, they claim you'll be refunded if it's spam, but imagine the headaches getting it reversed. Bell's customer service is a headache. As my sister noted, the higher up you get in the customer service chain, the better the English gets.

The inflated costs of having a cellphone in Canada are just not worth it to me. I know this pisses of a lot of my friends, but really... it's too much of a headache.

And this isn't even touch the whole iPhone mess with Rogers.

Comments

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

No cell carrier has yet explained why the cost of sending text messages is 700+% higher than sending the same amount over the Internet via their data plan.

Anyhow, I'm with Virgin Mobile (http://www.virginmobile.ca). They give you a ton of shit for free that everyone else charges you through the nose for, and even then their rates are pretty reasonable.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but isn't Virgin owned by Bell in part? I'm curious if this is going to carry over to them and Koodo.

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

Dag. They are co-owned by Bell. I did not know that.

As urufudo mentions below, Virgin might still be in the clear. They don't advertise that you get x number of received texts, rather, they say that receiving text messages is always free.