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Old 02-21-2008, 07:23 PM
John Navas
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Default Re: Text messaging rates increaase by 33%

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:17:04 -0600, clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote in
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>John Navas wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:25:25 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote in
>> <Xns9A4B7F3009278noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>:
>>
>>>These prices easily qualify as usury.

>>
>> Then don't pay them. Simple. If enough people do that, then prices
>> will come down.

>
>Extremely unlikely. A text message costs them so little that they can make
>outrageous profits if they cause a 99.99% drop in texting.


Only on a percentage basis. The absolute drop in margin would still be
a big negative.

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