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On October 1st, Sprint raised the SMS text message rate to 20 cents per 160 character message. Sprint customers complained but nothing is going to change, yet. Texting has become a part of our lives and wireless carriers know that. In reality, when we send a text message, we are only sending a small amount of data. If we put a value on that data, SMS is costing us somewhere between $1,000-2000 dollars per Megabyte. That should raise some red flags in the near future. A few companies are finding ways to get around the SMS standard by routing messages through e-mail over the internet, which costs less. Expect to see free SMS texting sponsored by light advertising in the very near future. Sprint can't charge this amount for too long. Phones are going open source. SMS texting at ridiculously high prices  will be a thing of the past in about three years.

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