What is it with our Canadian Cell Phone companies of late.
Sure the Rogers iPhone rates have been a major discussion as of late with www.ruinediphone.com having more than 52,000 people signing their petition (as of this post).
Then of course was Bell’s introduction of the Samsung Instinct with an unlimited data plan for $10, and Telus’s introduction of the HTC Diamond with $15-$30 unlimited data plan, which brought on pressure to Roger. People were going to jump ship and get on with Bell and Telus.
Now today comes news that Bell and Telus are going to start charging you, their customers, for incoming text message. What is getting customers angry is the fact that incoming unsolicited messages will be charged at $0.15/message. Of course you can “subscribe” to a package deal if you’d like and not have this affect you.
Here we are again in Canada being guaged by companies. Are they trying to drive Canada into a consumer recession?
I just don’t get what executives are thinking. True you can argue “value” over “pricing” but in this case I don’t see any value to the consumer, I only see the value to the corporations themselves. How can someone block text messages from their phones anyways? They must offer such a service.
This government needs to open up the market for more competition. Bring in the big boyz!!
As I’ve said before, ‘there’s no such thing as bad press’. Obviously Bell and Telus were tired of Rogers getting all the (logically good) press.
I’m going to create a script that will log into Telus’ and Bell’s websites to send mass amounts of text to randomly generated phone numbers! Mauahahah!
Luckily I am with Rogers so I won’t be charged incoming text messages.