p2pnet news view Mobiles | P2P:- PR Week calls it a SNAFU, and Bell Mobility users called it a rip-off.

There doesn’ t seem to be end to the number of strokes Bell Canada is willing to pull to screw cash out of its customers.

And that included trying to make Bell Mobility customers pay for Twitter.

Among other things, the company is in seriously bad odour  for trying to palm a really dumb smart phone off on them.

And it’s the subject of a CRTC probe for its traffic management practices.

On Twitter, Bell Mobility claimed it’d locked in an exclusive deal to “offer” Twitter to customers in Canada — at 15 cents per tweet.

Following a storm of protest, ” Twitter SMS (short message service) messages will now be included in Bell’s text message plans,” says the Toronto Star.

PR Week has Bell Mobility spokeswoman declining to go into details, beyond, “We want to ensure the maximum number of users of the service, and it is clear that including Twitter’s SMS supports that goal.”

Not at all incidentally, ’snafu’ is WWII slang short for ‘Situation Normal – All Fucked Up’.

really dumb smart phone – For whom The Bell (Instinct) Tolls, March 3, 3009
p2pnet traffic shaping digest – p2pnet traffic shaping digest,  April 19, 2008
Toronto Star – Bell does about face on Twitter, February 27, 2008
PR Week – Bell Mobility does about-face after Twitter snafu, March 2, 3009

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