Premium Rate SMS Music Download Surcharge

(via Ringtonia): If you thought credt-card micropayments were inefficient, look at premium rate SMS, the reverse billing. Linkin Park, the nu-metal (or whatever, I am not paticularly into that kind of music) band, is selling its new single in UK as a digital download, and with a credit card the download will cost £1.99 and £3 by premuum rate SMS…of course, this is due to the huge cut that operators get…

Another reason in the operators-as-evil-incarnate list…

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