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Re: NEWS: US edges towards mobile antitrust case

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From: John Blutarsky
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:52
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"John Richards" <JR@blackhole.invalid> wrote in
news:h35it5$2vc$1@news.eternal-september.org: 

> "Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@aNOoSPAMl.com> wrote in message
> news:b5g5m.32167$ob.1507@newsfe13.iad... 
>> Good point.  Rather than trying to trick us into texting more to 
> increase
>> revenue, they could trick us into texting more to reduce congestion! 
> ;)   
> 
> And that is happening to some extent. For example, my daughter used
> to have a 3000 minute voice plan before texting became popular, but
> nowadays she gets by with the cheaper 1000 minute plan because
> most of her communications are via texting. The smartphone 
> keyboards have made texting effortless. It sure beats playing
> voicemail tag.
> 

Then the use of texting actually saved you money in this case?
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From: John Blutarsky <bluto@faber.com>
Newsgroups: alt.cellular.verizon,alt.cellular.t-mobile,ba.internet
Subject: Re: NEWS: US edges towards mobile antitrust case
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 22:52:24 +0000 (UTC)
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