COMMENTARY: Text fee farce festers

IT’S NOT USUAL FOR a reporter to ignore a story on his beat, but it’s happening right now for me. The issue is text message fees and the decision by Bell Canada and Telus to begin charging customers who aren’t on any sort of texting or data plan 15-cents for each of their incoming text messages. I’ve been lax in my coverage of this story because I find the stupidity at all levels of this issue is breathtaking. Maddening. Press, consumers, government and the companies themselves; there is more than enough foolishness to go around. When the story first broke...