Senator opens inquiry into rising text messaging rates

The increasingly high cost of text messaging has already caused a bit of a stir
in Canada, and it looks like Democratic Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin
is concerned with the situation in the US as well, with him now opening
an inquiry to attempt to get the carriers to explain themselves.
Apparently, Kohl is a bit puzzled as to why some customers are now
paying 20 cents per message when they paid just 10 cents in 2005, a
period that Kohl notes just happens to overlap with some consolidation
in the wireless industry, when the number of national carriers shrunk
from six to four. Those carriers, as you might expect, aren’t saying
much just yet, with Sprint only going as far as to say that it looks
forward to “responding to the Senator’s inquiry about the text
messaging options we offer our customers and we will fully cooperate
with his request,” and the rest saying even less.Mun’s Page Blogspot