Hold the phone

How much are you paying for your SMS text messages? An article in The Daily Telegraph this week (I do their crosswords and puzzes) surprised me - at 25 cents per 160 characters, that puts SMS messages at $1000 per megabyte. It's a pretty penny to pay - and if they weren't included in my phone/data plan already, I might have to think seriously about using them as a (serious) communications method.