Cell Phone Industry
Before I get started I thought I’d note that this is post 300! Two milestones in one week, here and 400 over on Casual Magic, I remember when that many tweets was a lot.
So the reason for this post is that I was reading an article in the New York TImes today, The Irksome Cellphone Industry. Check it out. It has me wondering and hoping that congress will step in to save us from being nickeled and dimed to death. I know that my cell phone bill constantly fluxuates a few dollars each month and I don’t really know why (probably my fault and probably from texting – or is it?).
One interesting quote from the article is this,
..the data in a text message costs you about 61 million times as much as the same message sent by e-mail.
So think about that every time you send a txt update to twitter. In a recent conversation with a coworker about this they told me they get texting for free, so does that mean email is free-er? There is also skype, which we have free apps for on the iphone. I don’t know about you but I’m going to start to evaluate my cell usage.
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Eric Williams
July 30, 2009
I would not expect our thieving and bankrupting federal government to have any competence to “save us from being nickeled and dimed to death”. Besides, every well-intentioned regulation spawns new hazards, which in turn spawn new regulations.
Eric Williams
July 30, 2009
While I too loathe my expensive cell phone bills and scratch my head at the cost of texting, it’s worth bearing in mind the difference in transmission media when comparing to email. Cell network expansion and bandwidth is still expensive in comparison to internet network expansion. Consequently, bandwidth is also more costly. These investment costs on the part of cell providers are passed on to customers, but as technology gets cheaper, networks expand, and bandwidth increases customers either pay less for the same product or get more for the same price.