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From: Bill Z.
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:29

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SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> writes:

> Roy wrote:
> 
> > I like the European cell phone model.  The caller pays the for the call.
> 
> This pricing model allows the carrier to charge far more per
> call. Europeans pay more than 2x per minute, but since the cost is
> widely distributed the subscriber doesn't notice it. Therefore I'm
> surprised that this wasn't adopted in the U.S.! The problem is that in
> most countries you know by the prefix or area code whether or not
> you're calling a cell phone, while in the U.S. you don't.

The U.S. did the same thing with text messages.  The result is that
I have the text-message service blocked because some creeps were
harassing me with what I imagine is some type of advertising - meaningless
strings of keywords.  And that is without giving the number out to
anyone.  It must be a dictionary attack against my prefix.

It really pisses me off. An occassional text-message might be useful
but I wouldn't use it enough to justify the monthly fee for sending
N messages at a lower cost per message.  But I'm not going to pay
for someone to send me incomprehensible messages that I don't want,
and there is no way of rejecting a text message before being charged
for it.

I suspect the reason is more insideous - they want to make the service
look cheaper than it really is.

If anyone wants to argue about the benefits of "free markets" for 
managing resoures, they should also demand an end to gimics designed
to hide the real costs.

-- 
My real name backwards: nemuaZ lliB

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