[All four major U.S. carriers have doubled the price of sending text messages from 10 cents to 20 cents in the last three years. Predictions call for 3.3 trillion messages to be sent in 2009. With the popularity of texting, what's the reason for doubling the cost?]

By Randall Stross (The New York Times) -- "Text messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain."

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