Bell & Telus Blasted for Text Message Fees
Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice will have leaders from Bell and Telus in Ottawa to explain why they plan to raise the fees associated with text messaging to those customers without a bucket plan. Prentice is especially concerned about the public getting charged for an unwanted spam text message.
Bell and Telus say that the phenomenal growth of text messaging has caused it to increase the size of its networks to keep pace. The carriers say that text message volume nationwide in Canada has increased from 369,000 per day in 2002 to 45.3 million per day today. This claim on the behalf of the carriers seems kind of lame, doesn’t it? I mean doesn’t it cost less to sell a pound bag of potato chips than a one ounce bag?
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