Heh... someone score that post up as funny, please. {:

I'm not sure if its "supply and demand" or just "demand". It sounds like the argument is that the supply is, currently, not a limiting factor.

You know, we sound pretty lame when we start talking about "insufficient competition".

At first, it was just "monopolies" that were bad.

Then we started talking about how cable and telephone companies, although competing against each other, didn't provide "enough" choices for consumers.

Now we're saying that seven four cell companies aren't enough competition for each other. And we point out as evidence that they're all doing essentially the same thing to rake money in hand over fist.

Don't get me wrong - I think that text prices are, from a consumers point of view, stupidly high. But it sure doesn't sound like adding more companies to the mix is actually fixing the problem.

So perhaps the problem isn't them.

Perhaps the problem is us.