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  1. Comment - Enraged Canadian subscribers sue wireless providers over SMS fees

    (Aug 6, 2008 - 11:23 PM)

    Who does the sender pay if he has a Telus phone, sending to his friend with a Bell phone? ... If he pays Telus, Bell just had to send a text message free of charge.

    Sorry but we live in a capitalist country. Service providers are not here to make people's lives happy, they are here to make their shareholder's as much money as possible (it's even their legally binding fiduciary duty to do so!)

  2. Comment - Enraged Canadian subscribers sue wireless providers over SMS fees

    (Aug 6, 2008 - 11:19 PM)

    That would work in a world with only ONE service provider. There's only 1 post office.

    If someone buys a stamp at post office B and sends it to post office A and then post office A has to deliver it to the customer, shouldn't post office A be paid? If not, they'd go out of business pretty fast.

  3. Comment - Enraged Canadian subscribers sue wireless providers over SMS fees

    (Aug 6, 2008 - 11:11 PM)

    Why do you think it's the government's job to take care of you? Why is it up to them to set prices? Are we not in a capitalist country? Let the markets decide. If you don't like being charged for text messages, change providers.

    We should have smaller government and less regulations. We the people make the rules by choosing where we spend our money

    Nothing is free in life. Not sure why you'd not only expect, but DEMAND free services.

    Tomorrow, we'll be suing grocery stores for not giving away it's food for free.

    And by the way, it's not that easy to send SPAM messages "for free" on cells. - If it was, EVERYBODY would be getting HUNDREDS per day....as much as email spam.

    - And the spam messages you DO get, you won't get charged for. - Read a bit more carefully next time.

    The rest of the world charges for text messaging, just like any other service. Stop and think for a minute about your rationale...you are asking for a service and you do not want to pay for it!

    The only good point these people have is that they already have contracts setup, and changes in pricing breaks it.