I just don’t understand

Cingular charges me 50c per text message out here in Italy. I have to pay a dollar every minute of calls to or from the United States, including to check voice mail. And if my phone is turned on, and I ignore a call, I pay a dollar a minute while the caller leaves a voice mail. It’s highway robbery.

And yet I get completely unlimited GPRS data at no extra charge. I can usd Google Reader 24/7 while I’m out here and they won’t charge me a dime. How does that make any sense? Isn’t cellular data supposed to be a more closely guarded commodity than voice or SMS?

It makes me wish I had Skype for Windows Mobile.

Posted in Tech on May 13th, 2007.

2 responses to “I just don’t understand”

  1. Tuure Laurinolli said on May 13th, 2007 at 8:09 am

    You have it easy. Last time I was traveling in Central Europe, I paid 11.7 euros/MB for GPRS.

    I would gladly exchange not being able to make phonecalls for being able to surf the web for reasonable cost :)

  2. Alex Levy said on May 13th, 2007 at 8:42 am

    I’m not complaining; I do enjoy no-cost surfing. (Though the voicemail thing irks me.) I just really don’t understand how this makes sense on their part.

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