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this was really never about what bundles you can get 'coz obviously when you agree a contract you can pick and choose whats included.
its more about the basic charge per text message charged by the operators when compared to their per megabyte data charges
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Posted: 2007-03-28 23:50:57
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ahh yeah an sms is less than 1kb but hey ho..
why charge 1p when then can charge 10/12p??
fatreg
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Posted: 2007-03-28 23:58:16
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I pay 1 rupee per text here in India... Hmmm for comparison sake thats about 0.01 UK Pounds.. I guess that should be cheap eh?
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Posted: 2007-03-29 14:49:00
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Hi all,
I absolutely hate sending texts and even though it is included in my Flext Tariff as i can use my allowance for minutes or texts i never text if i have an option. In reality texts are the thing that got all of the Networks out of debt and profitable quickly as call charges have continued to drop from the original 25p per minute charged by the minute. Texts are the greatest rip off ever as the actual amount of data sent is minimal and so is the real cost. The funniest thing of all is that Texts are classed as Data usage and were and are used to bolster the growth of Data usage reported.
Marc
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[ This Message was edited by: Dogmann on 2007-03-29 23:29 ]
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Posted: 2007-03-30 00:27:27
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Texting is better if you don't or can't be bothered talking to somebody,
ive got 1000 free mins of calls to any network after 7pm and tbh half the time i'd rather just send a text message
Ive got 500 free messages so the cost means nothing to me,
I can use that to sent MMS aswell which is free.
Only message I pay for is International ones which I think is 13p or something like that
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Posted: 2007-03-30 00:34:36
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