banditws6
Shrinking Time and Distance
join:2001-08-18
Naples, FL
 ·Comcast
| The problem here is that we pay for incoming everything
The problem is that every unwanted advertisement that arrives could come directly out of my pocket -- either in data charges or docks against my minutes or texts. If I only send 4 or 5 text messages a month, the answer to this problem is not "just buy an unlimited text plan." I don't need one, and I'm certainly not going to pay $10-$15 a month just to avoid ads that collectively cost me a similar or lesser amount.
Ads on my mobile phone would just become a simple "ignore or delete it," if I didn't have to pay for the data they use just in getting to me. But if they were to cost me money when they show up, they would be completely intolerable.
I recently spent some time in Thailand, during which I picked up a cell phone to use there. I was surprised to learn that incoming calls and text don't count against my minutes or allowances. Only the person initiating a call or data transmission pays for it. If you ask me, that's how it should be.
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"I'll follow the law until it's just stupid." -Ted Nugent |
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jarthur31
join:2006-04-14
Carlsbad, NM | I'm with you there! Furthermore, such ads should be removed from the Internet as well. The WWW was meant as an data/information resource not some two bit whore to be exploited as corporate American sees fit!!! |
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Not a Script
join:2007-05-06
MEXICO
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The incoming calls/messages won't eat up your minutes / messages
Same happens south of the border (Mexico), I can get as many calls as I want for as long as my battery lasts and it costs me ZERO, same goes for messages, it started being this way long time ago (more that 10 years ago), I can tell you that I still remember the jingle and let me tell you something else:
I have also a plan where I can call my 10 (or 2 on the cheaper plan) favorite numbers for the same amount (big zero on min and text) there is of course the monthly charge but the big difference is that I have discovered that this unlimited minutes are truly unlimited.
I tried to test this by calling my wife and leaving both phones on a call and connected to AC power and guess what?After the weekend the call was there, no extra charges on my bill and when out of curiosity I went and called the company they told me that that was ok, unlimited means unlimited.
Oh and just to make you cry  I also had a plan that lets me pay by call not by minutes (as long as I call a land line or a cell on the same carrier) and I learned during that call to my carrier that if my call lasts more that one full day they will bill it as another call every 24 hours.
The only thing that you have to take into consideration is that if you use a land line to call a cellphone you will be billed by the minute (about USD 5 cents plus tax)and if you call from cell to cell the same will happen (about USD 10 cents plus tax).
So there you go, not bad for the 3rd world, huh? |
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