SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in
news:461ed065$0$27235$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:

> Scott wrote:
>
>> They can't make money on a normalized price of $300/month? Are you
>> smoking the shitty crack again?
>
> It all depends on how many $50 a month customers they lose to daily
> use of less than five times per month. Look at how they have to keep
> raising texting rates in order to get people to stop using pay as you
> go. Pretty soon it'll be $1 per text message!
>

Actually, they are raising the rate to determine where the ceiling is. Pay
per use is not detrimental to them and is quite a nice little profit
machine. It costs them no more to provide casual use- the billing system
captures the transaction and bills for it.