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Old Jan 14, 2010 | 9:22 pm
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Originally Posted by stimpy
The phone companies are complaining that a youtube video consumes as much as 500,000 SMS messages. But these same phone companies were the ones telling us how great their future was with video voice and data and how we should rely on them to provide all this. Now that we have bought into it, they don't want to spend any money to actually have their network provide the services they have been selling.
And look what they charge for those 500,000 SMS messages. Mobile phone robbery.

More and more smart phones are entering the market and some network operators (ATT in particular) seem ill prepared for the bandwidth onslaught.

You have to wonder if unlimited becomes limited for the hogs or everyone.
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