Charging For Texts
Hello, Steve here. So two of the big cell phone carriers in Canada are going to start charging for incoming text messages. The public howls in dismay. I haven’t heard this much complaining about the government cutting social programs for crying out loud.
Not that I agree with the cell companies. My cell bill has been going up and up for a while now, with always more new and exciting charges they’ve dreamed up. And now they want to charge for me to receive incoming texts?!
Which is really annoying, except that most of the text messages I receive are worthless information. Actually, so are a lot of the ones I send. My boss likes to leave me a phone message at home to tell me that he sent me a text message, which reveals a cell voice message that says he thinks we need to talk by phone. I go to the gym with a friend early in the morning and we text before leaving to make sure that we’ve actually gotten out of bed. And then one of us texts to say that we’re leaving the house and the other responds. And then we text to say that we’ve gotten on the bus and the other responds. If the bus is held up in traffic, one of us might send a text to tell the other to go ahead without them. The other responds that this is unlikely since they are, in fact, on the same bus.
What was I so upset about again?