[waveydavey]

Originally Posted by firstbuddha

here you go - a related article from Nick Starr's Twits on Twitter:

"...The price for one text message is 15 cents with Verizion to send what works out to 140 bytes of data. Under their wireless data plan 1024 bytes of data work out to only 1.5 cents. Doing a little bit of math, the price increase from a text message to a simple data request is increased 7314%. ..."

What you've also got to appreciate is that there is also a considerable profit in their data plan too. So the actual profit margin must be astronomical!