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I dont think so. Hardly anyone in the US pays for texts a la carte, and when they do, they went over their contract allotment and are pissed about it. I don't think hitting people with an unexpected $300 bill at the end of the month because they didn't realize they could have spent $5 more for unlimited plans is a great model for micropayments.

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I always wondered how people managed to send, on average, 1 SMS every 4 minutes, for 12 hours a day, every day. I'm not sure I could do that even if someone paid me to.

The surprise $300 bills you are talking about, they're teenagers right?

Because a lot of these texts are "yes", "no", "lol", "hi", etc. They might send 10 such texts in a 30 second period.

Yeah I see what you and mattmaroon mean. Thanks. I used SMS a fair bit when it was 20c/NZ a message - but that never seemed to be a big deal for anyone.

Interestingly, although running out of prepaid credit was highly inconvenient, it never really lead to people trying to conserve TXTs. As of today I am slightly ashamed to admit that I actually have no idea what an SMS costs me...

Back in the day had a prepaid phone that cost 25c/US to send and receive. I don't miss it.

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