I've been under the impression that my account balance with speakout has been dropping unusually fast compared with the months up to now. Today I made sure to check my balance before and after a couple text-messages and found that, instead of the usual 5 cents per text, I was being charged 10 cents. This was a message sent from Coquitlam to a recipient in Vancouver.

I did two messages: before the first I had a balance of $6.42, then immediately afterwards it was down to $6.32. The next message put me down to $6.17, but I received a text message inbetween.

I used to get incoming text messages free and outgoing cost 5 cents per. Is something funny going on with my account or have the rates changed

Disco Cat said:

I've been under the impression that my account balance with speakout has been dropping unusually fast compared with the months up to now. …

I have a Rogers pay-as-you-go account that charges $0.40 per minute. My friend has a Speakout account and I assumed he was paying $0.20 per minute. We mostly talk with each other. In April he bought a $50 top-up that I thought would last him at least four months based on the amount he uses the phone. He just got a message saying he has only a couple of minutes left. I added up my calls to his number during that time, and it's under $50. Unless there's something weird with his phone, it looks as if he's being charged $0.40 per minute.