Cell Phone Fees That Sneak Up on You

"Using your camera-enabled cell phone to send pictures is even more expensive: Cingular and Verizon both charge 25 cents per picture message sent or received (plus data charges if you're not on an all-you-can-eat plan). With Sprint, if you don't have a Power Vision plan, you must pay $5 a month for access to its Picture Mail service, plus 2 cents per KB for each photo you upload. Consequently, sending a typical 50KB image would cost $1 on top of the $5 fee. That's a lot more than the U.S. Postal Service charges for a picture postcard."