How can I get Verizon texting?

If you're not buying a monthly text-message plan from your wireless carrier, you're getting ripped off.Yes and no.If you do more than 24 text messages a month, then yes, you are getting hosed if you pay per message. But, then that is likely you own fault for not signing up for a plan.If you do less than 24 messages a month, then it depends on how you are looking at it. If you purely look at the per message cost, then yes, it sucks and you could say you are getting ripped off. But, it is still cheaper than paying for the monthly plan (i.e. if you pay for the monthly plan and only use 10 messages, then you are essentially paying 50 cents a message compared to 20 cents if you paid per message).Would it be nice to only pay 2 cents or so per message? You betcha. I would love it (I do not do a plan. I pay per message because I typically only have about a half dozen or so per month). But, if the 20 cents per message REALLY bothers me, then I could just not use text messages and they would not be ripping me off at all.Now, that does not mean that Congress or the FCC should not look at it. After all, it is rather suspicious that all four carriers charge the same rate per message under the PPU plans. You would think that competition would drive it down...but I guess that so few people do PPU AND actually care about texting, even if it is only a few each month, that there is little to no competitive pressure. There is likely more competitive pressure on the pricing of the monthly plans.