So finally, two days later, Twitter and Bell have worked out a deal where Bell won’t have to gouge their customers more than usual. That their customers thought they were getting gouged was a brilliant stroke of idiocy on Bell’s part:
“Bell and Twitter have agreed that all Twitter SMS (short messaging service) messages will be included in Bell text bundles at no charge,” Smithers told the Vancouver Sun. cbc.ca
How magnanimous of Bell. After only charging a 10,000,000% markup over what normal data transfer should be, you’d think we’d be fuming, but we’re just all relieved that everything worked out.
SMS is DATA. If you pay for a data package, you should never have to pay for a text message package as well. Thanks to all the folks who tweeted using the #belltwit hashtag for keeping me up to date.
