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But the food isn't cheap! Everything (except HFCS and beef) is much more expensive than in the EU.

That's the excuse that is used by farmers in Britain. We subsidise growing sugar beet in Germany rather than importing cane sugar because in WWII German U-boats cut off the imports.

When free evening/weekend calls were first introduced there were stories of people using their cell phones as baby monitors - the phone co had to introduce a one hour maximum call length.

The over the air part of SMS can be zero cost. The SMS message is in a spare 128byte segment of a standard phone-base status message (it can send a new packet specificaly to transmit the SMS but it doesn't have to if you don't mind a few mins latency). If the receiver is on the same base station -like kids texting each other across the classroom it doesn't use any of the phone companies network bandwidth.

It takes more bandwidth to send a message back to HQ to bill for the text message than it does to transmit the SMS.

It would take a lot of voice calls to make up for charging 10p/10c for a text which costs nothing to send!

So I'm not fat - I'm big muscled?