Txts, again

So, the text message debate came up again at the weekend. I'm not going to rant on again about why text message are clearly a good thing, because I've figured out what the phone companies are up to. This is their evil plan: they make two completely different types of call plan, on one side, the contract phones, where you get almost unlimited minutes so making and recieving calls costs nothing, but they charge through the nose to make or recieve text messages. On the other side are the prepaid/pay-as-you go phones where texts are only 5 cents to send and nothing to recieve, but calls are expensive to make and recieve. This dichotomy encourages arguments at drunken parties and what ensues is the sending and recieving of pointless texts and phonecalls just to make a point and cost the other person money, which falls straight into the lap of the chief executive of such-and-such phone company.

Please don't think that I think all American companies are merely out to con people out of their hard earned cash...