Big telecom firms make millions from cramming fees, senator says

Mysterious fees and services crammed onto phone bills are a “nationwide epidemic” for U.S. consumers, but a reliable source of revenue for some of America's biggest telecommunications companies, a year-long congressional investigation has found.

A report issued Wednesday by Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., says that three firms -- Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink/Quest -- earned $650 million as their cut of cramming charges levied by third-parties since 2006.

No surprise really...

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Text messages are the biggest scam....tiny tiny pieces of data, my mobile phone company charge 12p a text (about 30cents)

Text messages are something like 30kb....so on that basis 1mb of data would cost you £4.09 a MB....cheeky scamming bastards