This has got to be one of the most perplexing money grabbing fees that I have seen for a cell phone. Coming August this year in Canada Bell and Telus Mobility will be introducing a 15 cent fee for simply receiving a text message on your device. Before, it was free to receive messages but it costs you money to send messages.

Apparently they can’t afford to allow people to receive free text messages or something along those lines. This makes me wonder how it is going to work for text messaging services such as our public transportation system Translink. Nowadays, you can simply send Translink a text message with a special number and it will automatically send you a text message all of the bus schedules. I guess that means someone will get charged for sending the message and then receiving one too.

I wonder how high of a bill heavy Blackberry or other data phone users are going to experience with this.

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I was fairly busy today and thought that I would try and write a blog post using my cell phone while I was out. I must say, it is a rather tedious process not only from trying to type out sentences in general, but just trying to login to the blog itself is challenging. For example, my phone tends to put the first letter you type in capitals which in hence would cause case sensitive data to not work properly.

It was a noble thought though of not having to buy a more expensive data phone to do this. Although, in the end the battery on the phone was weak and so I guess it was meant to be that I shouldn’t even attempt it. I wonder if there are any other alternatives to a data phone.

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