Well, no ones forcing them to actually send these messages over the air. Theres this global network called the internet where you can peer with your mobile prov

Well, no ones forcing them to actually send these messages over the air. Theres this global network called the internet where you can peer with your mobile provider friends (just as you're doing now, on the air). The discussion is pointless either way, because actual speech takes up a lot more of that precious air time and only costs marginally more. You could literally send a complete book over the air disguised as "speech" and pay a miniscule fraction of what it would cost you to divide it up into tiny 160 byte blocks. Which then gets us back to antitrust.