John Navas wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:17:04 -0600, clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote in
> <0qr095-u56.ln1@remote.clifto.com>:
>>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.

They'd make more money charging 5 cents per text message and keeping all
their customers than losing 99% of texters. They won't do either, and
eventually people will wise up and get alpha pagers.

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