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updated 04:20 pm EDT, Fri October 10, 2008  Verizon adds text
fee   According to Verizon, the new fee reflects the provider's
need to cover its expenses in delivering MT messages. The
decision is expected to spur similar moves from other carriers,
as they look to pass on the cost from complaining subscribers to
other companies.  The high costs of text messaging has even
spurred Democratic Senator and Antitrust Committee head Herb
Kohl to send a letter last month to the four major providers,
asking them to justify what he believes are exorbitant SMS fees.
[via RCR]  By Electronista Staff Post tools:       1. Guest
Fresh-Faced Recruit      Joined: Nov 1999       this is funny
because, in terms of amount of profit per bytes of data
transferred, SMS messages are so wildly profitable for all the
carriers, if you text a lot, the carriers would rather give you
more free voice minutes than free SMS messages.      If users
knew how badly the c