{"id":3903,"date":"2009-01-01T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2009-01-02T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T14:00:44","slug":"all-other-problems-having-been-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3903","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Senator Addresses The Text Messaging Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All other national problems having been solved&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/28\/business\/28digi.html?em\">Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin<\/a> and the chairman of the Senate  antitrust subcommittee, wanted to look behind the curtain. He was curious about  the doubling of prices for text  messages charged by the major American carriers from 2005 to 2008, during a  time when the industry consolidated from six major companies to four.<\/p>\n<p>So, in September, Mr. Kohl sent a letter to Verizon  Wireless, AT&#038;T,  Sprint  and T-Mobile, inviting them to answer some basic questions about their text  messaging costs and pricing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I get unlimited text messaging for ten bucks a month. What an <em>outrage<\/em>.<br \/>\nReportedly, Verizon  Wireless, AT&#038;T,  Sprint  and T-Mobile sent the Senator text messages in response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>AT&#038;T:<\/strong> ^URS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sprint:<\/strong> 4Q<\/p>\n<p><strong>T-Mobile:<\/strong> ADAD. AFAHMASP. BIOIYA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think T-Mobile went a bit too far.  &#8230;Germans.<\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All other national problems having been solved&#8230; Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, wanted to look behind the curtain. He was curious about the doubling of prices for text messages charged by the major American carriers from 2005 to 2008, during a time when the industry consolidated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-geekery","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}