Your laptop is lying to you
This isn't the most spectacular achievement of the US cellphone companies. They also somehow managed to talk people into buying SMS message plans that charge you not only when you send a message, but also when you receive one. But it could be worse; if you're a Russian with a cheapo prepaid phone, you'd better be ready to be switched to half-duplex "walkie-talkie" mode, or dropped altogether, if someone who's paying more per minute needs your network bandwidth.

Serveixi aquest text pels descreguts en la política. El que necessiten russos i americans és un polític que digui que no.

Que no es pot cobrar per rebre SMS i no poden deixar sense cobertura els que paguen menys.