On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:37:07 -0600, clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote in
<j04195-bj7.ln1@remote.clifto.com>:

>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.

I don't think alpha pagers are going to come back. I suspect more
people will sign up for text packages, which I think is the ultimate
objective of the carriers.

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