Wired Magazine now puts its articles online when the magazine hits the newsstand instead of a month later. In the latest issue, you can read about the extraordinary exodus of Filipinos to jobs across the world. I learned, among other things, that mobile phones and text messaging there is extraordinarily inexpensive:
“Each 160-character message costs 1 peso (2 US cents) within the Philippines and 10 pesos internationally, making this possibly the cheapest place on earth to get hooked on texting. And it’s only the calling party who pays. A typical cell phone costs the equivalent of $50; most people buy prepaid cards that, for $6, cover the cost of 300 domestic messages.”
Text messaging costs me 7 times as much…
