Data should be data to a phone company, right? No, no. Not when there’s big money to be squeezed out of consumers. Therefore, the data the phone companies transfer as text massages will cost you 7314% as much [1] as data sold to you when you transfer data through your phone operating as a modem.
Having the functional equivalent of one big wireless phone company, which is where we’re headed, is like living in a communist country. The gouging consumers take in the markup of texting is proof. The other proof is that the FCC in the process trashing net neutrality in the wire markets [2]. If our politicians weren’t functional psychotics [3], they would clean up this mess in a week by breaking up the phone companies so that we had real competition, and then, for good measure, passing a constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not people [4] and forbidding corporations from playing any part in the electoral process.
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