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Philippines Government to operators: Make texting free

Started by Ewan · 1 year ago

The Manila Standard Today reports that the Philippines Government is mulling the concept of demanding operators provide texting for free. Heh. Cat, Pigeons.

Have a read:

ISLAND—The government wants cell phone companies, which move 1.39 billion messages a day, to offer texting for free.

“We are studying this now,” Transportation ... Continue reading »

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  • Charging for text messages was really set up as a control device or limiter for people. When text was free waaaay back when, late 90's I guess, the networked was swamped with text messages. One message took almost a whole day to be sent and I vaguely remember they were having difficulties with calls because of it also. So making it free would be a really really bad idea for a country where virtually everyone has a cellphone. Besides unlimited texts just makes people spend their day on the damn things.

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