Text messages are very very cheap everywhere except in the US. In the US it looks like the phone companies have created a cartel to make a ton of money from tex

Text messages are very very cheap everywhere except in the US. In the US it looks like the phone companies have created a cartel to make a ton of money from text messages. Text messages are carried in the control signal in a wireless system. Ie amount of actual communication bandwidth used by a text = 0! Amazing huh? I dont understand why no one in the US says anything about this. I think the charges from SMS amount to well over 1 billion dollars for each carrier per year.