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djrobx

join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA		reply to Nuts
Re: dangerous precedent

The hell they're not getting a kickback. It's absolutely insane how much wireless companies charge for text messages.
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en102
Canadian, eh?

join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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 Its one of the highest profit margin items that a wireless company can provide.

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service

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Commercially SMS is a massive industry in 2006 worth over 80 Billion dollars globally.[17] SMS has an average global price of 11 cents and maintains a near 90% profit margin.
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