Originally Posted by physioprof

My sense is that, to the extent they are even aware of this port leak, they don't want to turn it into an official service, because then it just leads to complaining that it doesn't exist everywhere and why isn't the entire internet free, not just text messaging? And WRT just the text messaging, they don't want to spend the money to allow this leakage on all their systems. They may not even know how the leak is occurring. Regardless, none of this discredits the official comments on technology--specifically available bandwidth in light of what is certain to be enormously increased usage when internet is free--as it's not difficult to understand that the bandwidth required for text messaging is orders of magnitude less than for Web browsing, etc.