Maybe that's why we don't text as much here. While we pay per-text charges or pay an extra $10 a month for unlimited texts, phonecalls to anywhere in the US don't cost any extra money. I have Vonage (which just launched in the UK - http://www.vonage.co.uk) at home, and pay nothing for calls to the US, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and am charged $.02 a minute for calls to England.