Rogers to start charging for ‘incoming’ texts

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Shaun

rogersBGR is reporting that Rogers is about to start charging customers without unlimited text plans for ‘incoming’ text messages. This will not affect the vast majority of users (94% in fact), but I do not understand the idea of charging 15c for a message that you did not solicit in the first place and for a technology which has minimal impact on network capacity.

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2 Responses to Rogers to start charging for ‘incoming’ texts

  1. Matt King says:
    May 6, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    Thank God we don’t have that sort of crap in the UK. I’d be billing o2 for the messages they think I want at 7am on a Saturday morning.

    You should never be charged for something you have no way of controlling.

  2. chris says:
    May 6, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    the sad and simple answer is they’re going to charge because they can. when that 6% calls to ask why they got charged $3 for the few texts they received they’ll be told they can avoid the fee by paying $5 for unlimited texting each month. in their head the math will make sense (3$ for 20 texts vs 5$ for unlimited texts) and most of them will go for it.