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Article #396Re: NEWS: US edges towards mobile antitrust case
From: SMS
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:57
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:57
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Bill Z. wrote: > I'd rather have them eliminate the "$99 unlimited" plan and charge a > fair price for everything (and maybe even do what they do in Europe > and charge the sender/call-originator the full cost). The average price of wireless minutes in countries where the caller pays is about 2x the price of wireless minutes in the U.S.. I'd take Todd's proposal a bit further. Let's charge $1 per text message and give away voice for free. The entire cellular network would be subsidized by teenagers.
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