Would you pay $66 for 1 megabyte of data? You already are.
Are you a fan of texting? I certainly am. There have been months when I blew through my texting plan, and got a nasty bill in the mail. I was thinking about this today and It’s amazing how badly we are being ripped off by the phone companies for what amounts to just standard data.
Did you know that a full text message, including text and headers is only about 160 bytes? That’s right. BYTES, not kilobytes, not megabytes. Bytes. And even if you have a texting plan for lets say 1000 messages for $10.00 a month, you’re still paying 1 cent per text. 1 cent for 160 bytes. In that sense, that doesn’t sound like much, I know. It’s hard to get angry over 1 cent. But in this time of high speed mobile internet, and $30 unlimited 3g data plans, charging 1 cent for 160 bytes, is the internet equivalent of throwing you on a bed of hot coals and raping you.
