clifto wrote:

> 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.

Oh, geez, yet another device to carry around.

In reality the carriers know that enough subscribers will decide to pay
for a texting package to offset the losses from those that will just
stop texting completely at the higher rates.