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I remember when I received my first phone. I was contemplating whether I should get the texting plan or not. In the end. I decided against it. Not because I was planning on not texting or anything like that. It was more like "how am I going to exceed $3.99 with 5 cents a text!?"
Little did I notice the changes in the mobile world, I let that go. Day by day, night by night, I never exceed $3.00. A year later, my dad started to complain and asked "why does your account have extra charges?" I explained to him "oh, it's just texts. I didn't want to get a plan for it, since it's going to cost $4 while I only used maybe $1 or $2" My dad was fine with me using text, but not really when it surpassed the $4.00 mark.
I didn't really care about it for a while, until maybe a year-ish ago. The text cost went through the roof. I ended up using about $6 or more a month without knowing. My dad wasn't really checking the bill before, so he didn't ask too much. Noone asked, noone mentioned, noone knows!
So when I started picking up the bills for my parents (I'm Asian, I pay stuff for my parents. I guess it's a cultural thing) I realized how much we've been spending. I looked at the bill last month "holy crap... I spent $15 on a text?" so I called up the phone company and asked what was the deal and I got the answer that left me thinking "wtf?" The text went up to 15 cents.
Well, recently, I wrote about how the text cost just went up with Verizon, well I can't really blame Verizon because everyone else already did it. AT&T and T-Mobile went up to 15 cents per text while Sprint were already waiting up there for Verizon at 20 cents. Now, why did they raise the cost!?
The bandwidth that is used for text is a low-bandwidth data line. It doesn't cost much at all to operate. The analysts were saying that the price increases weren't, at all, related to higher operating costs. Simply, they just want to poke our pockets some holes to earn themselves some "pocket change". However, the "pocket change" that the telecom companies are earning are more like my... a wallet and my lunch than a "pocket change".
With this increase, it forced us to get more expensive "bundles" plans and craps.... way to go guys, way to go. If I didn't have to spend $4.7 Billion to join in that 700 Mhz spectrum race, maybe I'll consider opening my own telecom company.
I remember when I received my first phone. I was contemplating whether I should get the texting plan or not. In the end. I decided against it. Not because I was planning on not texting or anything like that. It was more like "how am I going to exceed $3.99 with 5 cents a text!?"
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