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Saved by 2 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-12-29
- Startmysong on 2008-12-30 - Tags no_tag
- Nadinetouzet on 2008-12-29 - Tags text messaging
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carriers
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price-fixing
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text message rates
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pay-per-use price for messages
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class action lawsuits filed against the carriers
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costs-per-message
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text messaging bundles
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not only are text messages very small amounts of data, but they have their own control channel in the wireless network — and this channel is being used by the carriers in their operations whether a text is being sent or not
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Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume. It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million
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unlimited plans
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