Just got this Virgin alert message:
"Starting 3/15/06, text messages will cost just 5 cents per message to send & receive. Thumbs up!"
Of course, prior to 3/15/06, text messages cost *nothing* to receive, so naturally this is terrific news for those of us who have things like traffic alerts forwarded to our phones.
Maybe instead of calling them "Virgin Alert" messages, they should call them "Virgin Spin" :-).
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Have you tried calling Virgin customer service to ask if they meant 'receive' as well as 'send'? Is that one transaction (send & recieve [elsewhere]) or two transactions (send) and receive alsewhere? In other words 5 cents to send and 5 cents to recieve or just 5 cents total. PAT]