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Old 09-10-2008
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Senator examining rising text message rates.

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A key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is asking the nation's top four wireless carriers to justify the "sharply rising rates" they charge people to send and receive text messages.

In letters to top executives at Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile, Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl said Tuesday that he is concerned that rising text messaging rates reflect decreasing competition in the wireless business.

Kohl chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. His inquiry comes as European Commission regulators are threatening to impose a cap on roaming fees for text messages sent by Europeans traveling outside of their home nations, in an effort to force prices down by as much as 70 percent.

Kohl said he was concerned that consumers are paying more than 20 cents per message, up from 10 cents in 2005. This increase, he said, "does not appear to be justified by rising costs in delivering text messages," which are small data files that are inexpensive for carriers to transmit.
Is our beloved antitrust committee really waisting their time with this? Actually asking why a company charges what they can for a service. Because people are dumb enough to pay for it? Maybe? Show me a company that does not charge what they can for something, and I'll show you a company in need of my consulting skills.
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Re: Senator examining rising text message rates.

The rate for unlimited messaging from T-Mobile has remained constant for years. I have yet to complain about it.
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Re: Senator examining rising text message rates.

wtf. y wud u wry abt ts

Are teenage girls a big part of this guys constituency?

Seriously, however, text messaging has to do with data transmission and, yes, you don't want the big data cos colluding to drive prices up here, that would cost us all money.
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Re: Senator examining rising text message rates.

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Is our beloved antitrust committee really waisting their time with this? Actually asking why a company charges what they can for a service. Because people are dumb enough to pay for it? Maybe? Show me a company that does not charge what they can for something, and I'll show you a company in need of my consulting skills.
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Is our beloved antitrust committee really waisting their time with this? Actually asking why a company charges what they can for a service. Because people are dumb enough to pay for it? Maybe? Show me a company that does not charge what they can for something, and I'll show you a company in need of my consulting skills.

Perhaps you can use your "consulting skills" to research anti-trust legislation?

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Re: Senator examining rising text message rates.

We are talking about friggin' text messaging, hardly a vital neccesity of life. Why not have Congressional hearings on the cost of Starbucks coffee (way more expensive than gasoline, and we have had numerous--pointless--investigations into that)
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