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Rogers charging for incoming texts?!

Rogers to Start Charging for Incoming SMS Too

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...gers-text.html

Quote:

Rogers Wireless said Tuesday it would begin charging 15 cents for each incoming text message for customers without message plans, beginning on July 7.

The move comes about nine months after rival carriers Bell and Telus made similar changes in their policies.

Rogers spokesperson Liz Hamilton said the decision is in keeping with changes in pricing policies among wireless carriers in both Canada and in the United States.

Charges will affect only a small number of consumers because most already bundle text messaging with their cellphone plans, she said.

Consumers won't be charged for spam text messages and users of the discount brand Fido won't be affected, she said.

When Bell and Telus announced last year they would begin charging 15 cents for incoming texts, it sparked anger among consumers and became an unlikely political issue last summer.

Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton called the move a "cash grab" and the party started a Facebook group to protest the changes. Two Quebec residents launched class-action lawsuits against the companies for changing the terms of their wireless contracts.

Consumers don't have to pay for spam messages
Industry Minister Jim Prentice met with Bell and Telus and said after the meeting that his government would not introduce new legislation over the changes.

Prentice was assured by the carriers that consumers charged for spam could contact their service providers and have their charges removed from their bills.

The government's anti-spam bill, introduced last month, also includes new enforcement measures to prevent telecommunications companies from charging customers fees for receiving unsolicited commercial text messages.

The announcement of the change to text messaging fees came the same day Rogers announced that both Rogers Wireless and Fido phones will be able to send and receive updates from online messaging service Twitter by SMS text message.

The feature comes at no additional cost to people with text messaging plans, said Rogers. Bell Mobility worked out a similar agreement with Twitter in February.

However, a charge of 15 cents per Twitter message will apply to those consumers who don't have text plans, including Fido customers.

whew good thing i got rid of my prepaid and got myself a plan!

shit, I dun ever use SMS. I better remind my frd to never SMS me

Monkey see monkey do lol

Quoted from the site.

" How quickly they changed their tune. Less than a year ago they had this to say:

"We just don't charge for it, and have no plans to. Now it's a unique differentiator for Rogers," company spokeswoman Elizabeth Hamilton said of the move to charge for incoming messages.

http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=2527e80a-6260-47fb-b5ed-441d51cc0b79"

blackberry messenger > SMS

god bless my grandfathered w/ sms comm. pkg

I'm not worried, I've always had a text plan :D

whew.. luckily i have the message plan ~
15cents ..... fack facebook = 100 per day..

if you dont have a msg plan, you probably dont txt enough to warrant one anyways..

either that or your an idiot

If I saw this only this only 2 days ago, I'd be pissed because I didn't have text included in my plan.
Finally called in and got a retention with text included in it.

Fuck Rogers. I don't use texting personally from the phone, but my friends will send me txts.

I reply with online txting, but I'm fucked now.

Terms and Conditions are subject to change without notice. It may piss us all off but hey, nobody held a gun to our heads saying that we have to have a cell phone.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Draft (Post 6410984)

I'm not worried, I've always had a text plan :D

its not about being worried or not its about Robbers wireless nickel and dime-ing us the consumer for everything...we are already are one of the most expensive industrialized countries to own a cell phone

Fido, once again FTW.

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Originally Posted by bcrdukes (Post 6411005)

It may piss us all off but hey, nobody held a gun to our heads saying that we have to have a cell phone.

Really? I think my salesperson was a little more aggressive than yours was then.

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Originally Posted by BlackCharle (Post 6411041)

Exactly, i'm not even under Rogers

it's about what BlackCharle mentioned, and as the article mentioned, less then a year ago they were critisizing bell and telus for doing this, and promised that they wouldn't do the same. pathetic

BULLSHIT! Time to call the retention line and start bitching.

fuck u rogers

which fucking cell provider does this homo shit?

in fact a few of them dont even have this gayass service fee shit

now u wonna change the game by applying this bs?

This way is better. Now ppl can't mooch off their network by subscribing to twitter and getting msgs for free.

Good bye Rogers for me then

har har, soon you will have no where to go. Then you will have to buy back into the club and you'll be sorry..... :) :)