$200,000 phone bill

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  • i_monk0

    Phone companies are ripoff artists of the highest calibre. Take text messaging for example. It costs them nothing to route texts through – it piggybacks on the tower ping signal your phone uses to stay in sync with the network. That's why texts are limited to 90 characters (or whatever), because it's a 90 character ping. Yet phone companies charge you to send and receive a signal your phone ALREADY sends and receives a thousand times a day, whether you send a text or not.

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