Irix wrote:What's the deal with messaging anyway? I was disappointing to see it cost money. Plenty of services (such as Text+) That offer US/Canada texting for free along with other goodies. Kind of a bummer, but I'd rather use something free than pay money for an identical service.
Hi Irix,
Dell Voice is aiming to be a complete mobile solution for Canadians, which is slightly different than apps offering only free ad-support texting but still require you to pay extra for phone service, or have a dedicated phone plan from your carrier.
With Dell Voice we're giving you the voice services for free with a free phone number, calling to all major metropolitan areas in Canada along with fully loaded phone features (something that's traditionally very expensive from mobile phone companies).
In turn, we have various addons like texting and long distance calling vouchers that can be purchased at extremely low prices compared to most of the competition. Compare unlimited Canada-wide texting to $10-15 from most pay-as-you-go phone carriers. Also, many free texting apps will include ads in the messages that are sent - we do not do this. (Keep in mind, we still offer FREE Dell voice to Dell voice texting though)
So in short, even though you have very low rates for the texting, we're still saving incredible amounts of money on the other part of mobile service - the phone calling, long distance and calling features. It comes down to the business model, and although the competition may have some free ad-support texting apps, they aren't able to save you all the money on your phone service like we do. So it balances out, and you'd probably even save more money by going with Dell Voice!