WTF, T-Mobile?

[Here's Fanny!]

Also, when I called T-Mobile, they said that starting in mid-July there'll be a lot more options on text message control, including blocking all of them, blocking incoming or outgoing, setting a limit above which they're blocked, etc.

I'm going to assume that they made a sweeping policy change based directly upon my phone call and subsequent account cancellation. The guy on the phone was sad and devastated (he told me so. Twice!).

[ghostjmf]

While on the land-line (OK, its my sister's goofy portable-in-a-connection/charging-base that has all the disadvantages of a cell phone & none of the advantages; it can't be far from the mother-ship or else it won't work) to discuss my mysterious roaming charges which they won't cancel, I asked about those pesky text-message charges. "You can have texting blocked" they said, after somewhat limply trying to sell me a flat-rate texting plan (as with all other companies, you have to pay for received texts even though you did not solicit them. Well, they claim you won't be charged if you don't open them, but I have been charged for things I didn't even know were there 'til the bill tipped me off.). "OK", I said. Done.

I will not regret it. I have a theory on texting; that its the can't-spell generation's e-mail. Something you don't have to answer if ya don't wanna. I prefer to use the computer for that, & save a phone for actual voice-to-voice (& hopefully brain-to-brain) contact. In, as they say, real time.