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Uploaded by on Jun 19, 2009

Yet another consumer rip-off! Text messaging!

According to leading computer scientists claimant, the consumer mark-up on some text messages tend to be an estimated 4,900 per cent, including Canada as one of the most expensive to own a cellphone, since the monopoly and lack of competition.

Sole in Canada the number of text messages rose from about 174.4 million in 2002 to about 20.8 billion last year. As well as during the first quarter of this year, Canadians sent nearly 7.8 billion messages, compared to 4.1 billion in the first quarter of 2008, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Industry.


Last year, 280 cell towers - out of the four million towers in the world - were needed to carry the estimated 3.5 trillion text messages sent worldwide, so there is no "congestion cost" associated spectrum availability and the rapid growth in popularity of text messaging.

Here's a brief message by CBC's the Current:

HAVE YOU BEEN RIPPED-OFF TOO?

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  • Funny, isn' ti?

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  • Can't we just call people the old fashion way and chat-on instead of text-messaging? :-)

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  • WTF right on!!

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