09/05/09 Friday - Dark
This has been bugging me since the announcement back in summer. Telus and Bell announced that they are charging 15 cents per incoming text message. Great! Another money sucking decision by two of the leading cellular mobile company! Why do I bring it up now? Caz someone just texted me and I am using freaking Telus!
When text messaging was introduce few years back, only senders were charged with a small fee. As the texting phenomone became a hit, you can have plans where you can have unlimited or limited incoming text so you can text back and forth. I enjoyed those time where I texted for 50 msgs in a day. Now thanks to the new levy, I'll be getting charged whenever someone texted me. There are people who are concerned about this because somehow they gave their numbers to some companies and they are getting spammed by text messages. I feel for you people.
What I am trying to say is... why the hell do you do this? Clients who already have the texting plan should be able to receive income text for free or text-to-text same mobile for free. Right now, Telus and Bell users are pretty much facing this dilemma. Text someone and wait for a reply but hope they don't text you back? What is the point of just sending out text when you don't want a repsonse by getting texted back? Sure you can say, they can call you back. But I feel kinda useless have a text program just to send but not receive. It's like having a phone to call people but the only way to receive response is to come by my house when you are free. WTF!
For those people who are getting spammed, 1) Don't giving out your numbers! 2) Telus and Bell, if they are nice enough, let them disabled the text messaging option so no out-going and incoming text is allowed like they did with the Internet option.
Why do phone companies always the one to steal our money? Canada is pretty much the worst country with phone plans and phones. I hate Telus. I want a Sidekick LX or SH905i or SH906i.
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