'Texting' takes its toll.Text-messaging by cell phone, or "texting," is a convenient way to stay in touch with friends. But it can also run up a huge bill. High school and college students who are used to sending and receiving unlimited instant messages via computer may quickly exceed the number of text messages included in their cell-phone plans. Sending extra messages usually costs 10 cents each and can quickly add up to hundreds of dollars a month. "It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have causing family fights, the kids are broke, and a lot are graduating with debt because of cell phones," says Kevin Truitt, a high school principal in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . "The students are not reading the fine print." Howard Waterman, a spokesman for Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. , suggests finding a cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. package and keeping track of text-messaging activity by reviewing your account online. |
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