The Text Message Scam

Posted by The Bandit

January 6, 2009

With the cost of text messages skyrocketing and the cost of gas plummeting, it is no longer economically feasible to dump your girlfriend via text message anymore. As we all know, one text message can easily turn into one or two dozen, so it is probably cheaper to just drive over to your future ex-girlfriend’s house and dismiss her personally with a line such as “later fatty.” This seems to be more effective than texting her “l8r 4evr” and having to answer 15 follow-up texts. What used to be fun and economical at 10 cents is just plain expensive at 20 cents. Over the past three years, all of major cell providers have jacked their text costs up 100% to that 20 cent level, a sizable jump matched only by this man’s weight gain. Thankfully, Democratic Senator and the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, Herb Kohl, is now on the case. He has uncovered some startling truths concerning text messages, namely that they cost the cell companies almost nothing. In fact, “It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million.”