Texting?

drsteve wrote:
Texting can be very useful. It's not a substitute for email or voice calls, but it has it's place. Also, as mentioned by others, a text can often get through when signal is marginal, while a call will not connect or will continually drop. I used to tell my kids that texting was low tech, like sending a telegram...

And SMS messages cost the phone companies nothing, for all intents and purposes. The data pads out free space in other packets that are already being sent. Sort of like deadheading on an airplane.

And yet they charge a pretty penny for texts, relatively.