While many of us have often felt as if we\u2019re being ripped off by cellular carrier\u2019s fees for text messaging, we didn\u2019t know how much of a rip-off this was until the New York Times recently exposed it. On top of it all, the carriers are bordering on price-fixing, with all of the major carriers raising the fees for text message rates in harmony when the business was exploding. Pay-per-use text messages generally run about 20 cents today. According to an estimate from the Gartner Group, approximately 2.5 trillion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While many of us have often felt as if we\u2019re being ripped off by cellular carrier\u2019s fees for text messaging, we didn\u2019t know how much of a rip-off this was until the New York Times recently exposed it. On top of it all, the carriers are bordering on price-fixing, with all of the major carriers raising the fees for text message rates in harmony when the business was exploding. Pay-per-use text messages generally run about 20 cents today. According to an estimate from the Gartner Group, approximately 2.5 trillion Continue reading