Don't try to convince me that it's always been this way, because there are people I know who work at Telus and didn't even realize that it's like this now.

So, apparently there is NO plan available where you can get unlimited, or even a fixed number of text messages while in the US. You basically have to pay 60 cents per text, that's that.

I was on a contract that recently ended and I switched to a Blackberry phone only to find that there is no plan I can get that allows me to do what I used to do. Which was send/receive text messages while in the States without worrying about a per-text charge.

What happened? Why are things going backwards? This is the worst possible text messaging system I have ever heard of. It'd worse than what it was the day after text messaging was invented.

2 years ago someone calculated that we pay more than 4.4x as much for text messaging as it costs to send that same data to the Hubble Space Telescope. Incidentally, this latest gouge makes text messaging cost just more than 9x as much as messages to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Clearly the costs are not increasing in proportion with what we are spending. Unless of course, we are routing all text messages through a call center on Mars.

How is it possible that the cheapest option for me is to buy two phones?
One in Canada and one in the States.


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