In short, without any special announcement, T-Mobile (IIRC) more than doubled my family's text messaging rates. We used to pay 5 cents per message, then 10. Then, T-Mobile started charging for both inbound and outbound messages, which is unlike Internet access, Local/Long distance phone service, or postage services.
T-Mobile now charges 15 cents to send a message and 15 cents to receive one. So for a husband and wife to text each other costs 30 cents - more than to send a physical post-card thru the mail (26c)!
When you consider that SMS is limited to 160 characters, and most text messages I've ever sent or received are under 50 characters (i.e. "on the way home, anything from the store?"), T-Mobile is now charging my family a cent per character! This has to be the greatest ripoff of all time in the telecomm industry.
T-Mobile, if it wasn't for your funny sales staff who keep accidentally giving us discounts on phones without a contract in the store (they couldn't care less), we'd leave you in a heartbeat. In fact, we almost did for the iPhone and probably will when rev 2 comes out.
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