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That last little sentence will cost you 15 cents if big cellphone companies have their way. Both Bell and Telus Mobility have announced plans to literally nickel and dime you for every text message you receive on your cellphone - including junk mail you don't want.
The reason They want the money."
source : http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.htmlid=76315955-cc56-4e93-973b-892eda763ca4
7 years agoComments:
I personally have a plan with unlimited text messages from tellus, but plan to go to pay as you go when my contract is over and do NOT think it is right to charge for incomming messages! Like honestly, they already charged someone else to send it!!!
7 years agoComments:
I personally have a plan with unlimited text messages from tellus, but plan to go to pay as you go when my contract is over and do NOT think it is right to charge for incomming messages! Like honestly, they already charged someone else to send it!!!
Sarah Krieger, Canada
7 years ago
Heather, Canada
7 years agoComments:
This is ridiculous! Whether or not they DO start charging for incoming texts, I'm switching cellphone companies.
Leanne, Canada
7 years ago
Amanda, Canada
7 years ago
Marek Kundera, Canada
7 years ago
Teagan Robertson, Canada
7 years ago
Jay Jackson, Canada
7 years agoComments:
Bell/Telus are claiming that 95% of all text messages sent won't be affected by this because those messages are already under a package plan. So then, how can they say it's because of the increased amount of message the solution is to push the remaining 5% of messages to a package plan That again, makes no sense.
Here's what they make financially based on $0.15 for ONLY OUTGOING text messages. The maximum size for a text msg is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and the avg price for a text msg is $0.15. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that
