Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Bell, Telus customers to pay for incoming text messages

You know, here in Canada our "providers" just don't give a fuck anymore what we think of them.

Cellphone users with Bell and Telus are going to have to fork over a little more to receive incoming text messages under new pricing plans slated to roll out in August.

Under the new plans, customers will be charged 15 cents to receive incoming text messages, including uninvited spam messages. Previously, customers without text plans were only charged for outgoing messages...

"The user has much less control over the messages they receive so it's a terrible customer experience to be charged for such a thing...A 14-year-old kid gets 30 Happy Birthday messages and gets saddled with the bill, for example."


Woohoo, there's gold in them there suckers.

Read more here.

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