Maintream texting in the US
May 22nd, 2007 by rbanks
For Texting Teens, an OMG Moment When the Phone Bill Arrives
“Minutes? Forget minutes. It’s all about the text allowance. It needs to be supersized, now that instant messaging has leapt from the desktop to the mobile. Families who carefully researched their wireless plans to cover calls with no extra fees are discovering, to their horror, that their thumb-tapping teens have found a new way to blow the budget. In Sofia’s case, her parents’ plan included only 100 free text messages a month — fewer than half of what she was using every day “at all points of the day” — and she racked up massive per-message fees fast.”
washingtonpost.com
