Cell Phone Execs Will Face Questions On Text Messaging Price Hikes
Those cell phone companies will have a lot of explaining to do Tuesday when they testify at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on rising text messaging costs. Representatives from Verizon, AT&T, and Cricket will be faced with questions on why those short 160 character SMS messages are costing the consumer too much.
Last September, U.S. Senator Herb Kohl of (D-Wisconsin) chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee expressed his concerns that the big cell phone companies may be taking advantage of consumers by upping the price of text messages in cell phone plans. He sent a letter to AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile:
“Text messaging files are very small, as the size of text messages are generally limited to 160 characters per message, and therefore cost carriers very little to transmit,” Kohl wrote in his letter. “What is particularly alarming about this industry-wide rate increase is that it does not appear to be justified by rising costs in delivering text messages.”
Over the last few years, telephone companies have been hiking up the price for text messages from as little as one-cent per message to 25-cents or more depending if the text is plain text or a multimedia text with photo, video, or audio. Full story here.
Source: mynewsjunkie.com
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