| Why haven't phone companies done this already? Create a new standard IMS (internet messaging service), that does text and multimedia messages, and have it send over their data connection.
Then, the phone company doesn't have to 'buy new network capability' to keep up with the vast number of texts sent over SMS and could still make a high margin off of texts, while lowering the price for everybody (Phone companies for not having to put in more towers, and consumers who won't have to pay $30 for texting).
If one cell phone company did this, they would be able to advertise MUCH lower text messaging costs.
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00000 | Sending messages on the current system costs the telcos virtually nothing. They charge $30 because there are enough suckers willing to pay it.
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Morganton, NC | It's not necessarily suckers so much as it is there is no competition and no other alternative. Either you pay what they charge or you do not text.
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Best of luck
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00000 | I was saying "suckers" in the view of the telcoms. All of us are suckers to them.
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