The real issue here is international calling. Phone calls that initiate from outside the U.S. are charged and regulated by that country, not American phone companies. Ever tried to make a phone call from Mexico while on vacation? The cost is outrageous but it isn’t the American phone company that came up with the rates. It’s the Mexican phone company that chose them. Wouldn’t shock me at all if Haiti’s are just as bad.
I really don’t know what texting rates are because I’m all thumbs and can speak a lot faster than I can type. But I don’t doubt that those rates are excessive too, and probably even worse when they originate from Haiti or Mexico or anywhere outside the U.S.
I never attempt to contact home from another country except by email. Have had too many $urpri$es$!
I look forward to the day where cell phone rates are low and consistent. Anyone else remember the days when long distance calls (yes, on rotary landline phones to all you sanctimonious old goats) were outrageously expensive and times had to be monitored to avoid a bank-breaking bill?
Every few years I get hit with a bank-breaking cell phone bill for one reason or another. As a general business model, infuriating your customers every few years is a poor plan, but will monopoly regulations ever break up the cell phone companies to increase competition as was done with the old long-distance services?