Good news for anyone who wants to doff their Sprint shackles but was unwilling to pay an eye-gouging cancellation fee. See, Sprint's just raised their text-messaging fees to $0.15 per, which constitutes a "material change" to your contract. Any time there's a material change, you're capable of canceling your service without facing a fine.
Good news for you, oh disloyal Sprint customer.
Oct31 Deadline For Free Sprint Contract Killing [Consumerist]
DISCUSSION
I was shocked in the states last year when I found out how you pay to receive txts, and pay to receive calls!
Here in New Zealand you never pay to receive anything, and even not on a contract, you can send 1,000 txt messages for about US$6. Vodafone here has free txting all weekend too.