>>>If you were not ticked off at your cell phone provider already this should do it.
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>>>http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1001/gallery.americas_biggest_ripoffs/index.html
>>>
>>>You would think the FCC would say something about that....
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>>They are a ripoff, but not that much of one unless you are stoopid enough to go with a 10 or 20 cents per message plan. I pay $30 a month for unlimited text messaging for my two daughters and me. They generate literally thousands of text messages a month between them.
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>Even so $30 a month is still a ripoff because it's prolly only costing them .0003 cents.

On the face of it, it looks like the opposite of what you'd expect. If I were a carrier with a congested network, I'd encourage bandwidth-efficient texting rather than voice chat.