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williamx

Aug 28, 2009, 9:54 AM
Perhaps the cell phone companies here in the US could make text messaging free. Not necessarily picture or video sharing free, but just the simple act of being able to send or receive a text message.

One has to ask why in the past two years has the price of a text message gone from $0.10 to $0.15 up to $0.20 per message if you don't have a text message plan. Sure you can buy a text message bundle plan, but why should a user do so if they are already paying so much for their voice plan and data plan?

Just some food for thought.
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60dollarcarcharger

Aug 28, 2009, 12:44 PM
what happened to the fact that if you want something you have to pay for it. It's simple economics. Don't expect something for free just because a lot of people use it.

You don't get free gas just because you bought the car.
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williamx

Aug 28, 2009, 1:00 PM
@60dollarcarcharger,

perhaps, you missed this part

"One has to ask why in the past two years has the price of a text message gone from $0.10 to $0.15 up to $0.20 per message if you don't have a text message plan."

Why did the price go up for something that costs next to nothing to manufacture? Why is Congress and the FCC looking into the wireless companies who have raised their prices? Maybe because the government knows that the consumer is getting taken for a ride.
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movekwik2002

Aug 28, 2009, 7:23 PM
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texting has gone up 2x yes it has!!!! so what!!! GET A PLAN!!!!!

SO HAS GAS!!! milk too...

ok never mind i get it we should pay the same for everything as we did in 1988....

i would love to go back to .75 cents for gas .95 for a pack of smokes and all that jazz

But as we make more and they charge more we pay more...

If you dislike paying .20 for a text then dont text ... if you have unlimited text and you are bitching just to bitch you really suck.

PEOPLE get over your selves
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ATnT Nokia

Aug 28, 2009, 9:56 PM
Actually, wages have only gone up about 25% in the last two decades, whereas, cost of living has gone up over 80%. So in a sense, we are making less now than we did back then.

It used to be, blue collar workers could afford a mortgage, but not anymore. Blue collar families could send their kids to at least a community college, but not anymore.
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Menno

Aug 29, 2009, 10:00 PM
One of the reasons for that is the availability of public funding for school has gone up, so the cost of school has skyrocketed (think about it, if a school knows they can get $10k of government aide for raising admission 12k (and they'll still have more applicants than spots) why not raise tuition? And then the government increases aide to low income families to compensate and the cycle starts over again. meanwhile, those families stuck in "middle income" are stuck without the increasing aide, but with the increasing costs.


As for housing, remember that the average size of a house has gone up in the past 20 years as well. If you compare the average home here to the average home 20 years ago, ours have more sq footage, sometimes more...
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wild tiger

Aug 31, 2009, 4:41 PM
it's definitely an interseting thought. it's a little bit of a push for customer's to "just get a text plan already", and part, "well every body else is going it so why not us."

when it comes right down to it i believe if you use it you should pay for it.
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