Ah, long time no see guys....

Here , T-Mobile hawks their "unlimited messaging for families plan," illustrating once more the reason why I have no cell phone or text messenger or service like that: they're all priced at extortionate rates, with the only exceptions being plans that all seem to carry some hidden "gotcha" designed to screw you over if you fail to invoke the proper incantations.

And whose idea was it anyway, to charge for sending per text message, anyway? How much money does it really cost them to ship a few bites of ASCII wirelesly? Would they charge 12.5% more to send an eighth bit?