Screw You, Telus!

[vansly]

(and Bell)

I am not currently a Telus customer, and now I never will be. They have just announced that they will be charging their customers $0.15/text message received. What the hell? Why should someone have to pay for something that they have no choice to reject or not

Comments

[lechatron]

When I was a T-Mobile customer you got a $0.25/text sent or received if you didn't have a txt msg plan. Is Telus doing this fee even if you have a txt msg plan? It would make sense to charge a fee if you're not currently paying for them. But most plans come with some number of txt msgs and that number should subtract for incoming and outgoing.

[chris]

as far as I know, you get charged for received txts the same as ones you sent. I also have t-mobile.

[keph]

Yup. Pretty standard down here (and many other places). You even get to pay for text spam. Joy.

Basically it is a push to get people on recurring monthly plans for texting.

[fita_isolante]

aaaand screw you bell....I guess I can put the lube away because clearly this will be a painful ass-fucking

Can I say again ...

[luinfalathiel]

... how much I love Korea?? My cell phone ROCKS.

I'm peeved that when I leave here, I will not be able to: call anyone anywhere in the country without paying long-distance charges; literally pay-as-I-go (put $30 on the phone, it lasts three months, it's done, I go and top up again - no "gotta use this time up before the end of the month" and wasting money crap); receive unlimited text messages/incoming calls for free, day or night; pay FIVE CENTS for each outgoing text; never have problems with dropped signals/no signal, even in the subway; get away with doing all this without signing any sort of contract ...

(I know part of the long-distance thing is that Korea is so tiny - I mean, you could fit ten Koreas into British Columbia - and it's also really developed, so there's a cell tower on nearly every mountain. But still!)