>>Last time I bought a cell phone in the US, it was one of the throwaway "free" phones which went with the initial prepaid amount, and then you'd buy more minutes as prepaid cards in a grocery. The instruction manual was rather interesting: about 20% of the contents was about the technical aspect, how to do this or that with the phone. The rest was about various options regarding money - the cost and terms of each option. Plus small print.
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>>The most developed feature in this branch is creative billing. And now they want to charge for that creativity too.
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>Commie ;-)

Yes, indeed, I want some value for my money. And I want to charge my provider for the time I spend deleting their spam. It's not a free service, you know - and I'm doing a lot of good for their PR - if I had to wade through all that spam to find what I may be looking for, I'd hate them more than I do.