by Werner Patels
Canada’s main mobile phone companies, Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility, have decided to charge recipients of text messages 15 cents a message, including any unsolicited spam messages. A third provider, Rogers, recently made negative headlines when it became known that its introduction of the infamous iPhone in Canada would come with outrageously high rates and plans. That news had already incensed users of mobile communications, so the last thing they wanted to hear was that the other two companies would resort to gouging as well.
Petitions have been launched against Rogers and its iPhone pricing, and the New Democratic Party (NDP) has thrown its own “stop the text messaging cash-grab” petition out there, which generated about 7,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Jim Prentice, minister of industry, has called the bosses of Bell and Telus on the carpet, upbraiding them for their new pricing policy for text messages.
Telecoms have been compla...
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