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AT&T Simplifying Texting Plans, Enlisting Best Buy in Battle Against Verizon iPhone
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Right, which google will stash for 50 years or so and scan for anything they can use to sell advertising....
I agree. Text is just data. it should be part of the data plan. Its criminal that they charge extra like this.
And here is the kicker. You can't refuse a message to avoid being charged. So spam text gets you a charge. I do not want to turn of the ability to send and receive texts (if you even can) because I know that the number of messages i will send and receive will add up to a cost less than the plan. But I've gotten a few of these spam texts and it makes me mad.
how is this better. I see this as only a cost increase from AT&T. Per text message cost for the 1500 plan is the same. It more screws people who used around 100-200 message by doubling their cost and pushes more people to go unlimited (again increase cost).
This is not simplifying this is increasing the cost.
Sorry AT&T but you just are screwing over more people. Drop unlimited to $10 and $1000 to 5 a month and then we will be talking. Text messaging service is nothing but near 100% profit.
This is not simplifying this is increasing the cost.
Sorry AT&T but you just are screwing over more people. Drop unlimited to $10 and $1000 to 5 a month and then we will be talking. Text messaging service is nothing but near 100% profit.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned what the part near the bottom of that picture is saying...the part of "Quick messaging" phones (non-smartphones..i.e. feature phones) being REQUIRED to have a "Messaging Unlimited" plan. Now they are going to force certain non-smartphone users to have unlimited text messaging, whether they use it or not?! 
I completely agree with you....i seriously didnt know anyone that had AT&T before the iPhone came out. I knew 3 people that worked for AT&T that didnt even have an AT&T phone before the iPhone. AT&T is trying to hide the fact that they are tucking their tail between their legs right now...
yes text prices are a ripoff yet people pay. therefore, people like being ripped off.
Hear, hear. If you have an iPhone, buying a text messaging plan is simply burning money for no reason. Just type "free texting" into iTunes and take your pick! Heck, most people have smartphones now anyway, so why not just email them?
I like that AT&T "simplified" their plans for us. They "simply" want to get $10 minimum from anybody that wants text messaging. People, save yourself some money and dump your text messaging plan!
Isn't everything data on thier end?
I'm thinking these plans will be gone soon and there wont be minutes or sms or whatever.
You pay for X MB/GB of data to use as you seen fit between calls/text/web....
Am I wrong and voice is not data on thier end?
Verizon offers a bundled plan for 450 anytime minutes and unlimited texts for $59.99 a month (the same as $39.99 for the minutes plus $20 for text).
The advantage to the bundle comes in if you get any discounts. AT&T gets me a 10% discount but that was only on the voice and data, the text did not have a discount. Verizon's discount will be off text, data, and voice minutes thus making Verizon a little cheaper.
Verizon also offers separate texting packages, $5 for 250, $10 for 500, and $20 for 5000. The $10 and $20 plans come with unlimited verizon-to-verizon texting which would be useful if those you text most are also Verizon customers.
The advantage to the bundle comes in if you get any discounts. AT&T gets me a 10% discount but that was only on the voice and data, the text did not have a discount. Verizon's discount will be off text, data, and voice minutes thus making Verizon a little cheaper.
Verizon also offers separate texting packages, $5 for 250, $10 for 500, and $20 for 5000. The $10 and $20 plans come with unlimited verizon-to-verizon texting which would be useful if those you text most are also Verizon customers.
Bingo.
This is the reason I just signed up with AT&T. In rural-arse America it still has the best coverage. 2G speeds though.
AT&T haters.... drop your accounts already!
Because you'll be persuaded by the network speed (memo claims 35% faster than Verizon on average nationally), ability to talk and surf simultaneously (memo claims one-third of customers use it daily), global network coverage, and Wi-Fi hotspots.
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Soon my whole plan will be nothing but grandfathered
Soon my whole plan will be nothing but grandfathered
Actually, you can opt out of text messaging altogether. I have done so. I did it because I didn't want to pay for texts coming in to me. It's hilarious that they make you pay for incoming and outgoing texts and yet people gladly pony up. Just call AT&T and opt out. I see on the "myWireless" app that I'm in the "Text Message Opt-Out" and the "Picture/Video Message Opt-Out" under the "Web, Text and More" section of features. So although I requested they do this over the phone, perhaps you can opt out of it by using the app instead?
Yeah, I miss AT&T's old incoming-texts free plan (or benefit). I turned text messaging off because I don't want other people being able to decide when I get charged 20c. If I could control it, I'd be much happier.
What would be a nice alternative is an option to decline the text. It tells you only what number it's from. To read it you have to pay.
Actually, text message data is literally free to the carriers because their data is sent as part of the normal housekeeping traffic between phone and tower. That's why text messages are limited to 140 characters: they use a formerly unused portion of a housekeeping data packet.
Hmm, still a rip-off, but I like $10-for 1000 better than $5 for 200 and $15 for 1500.
200 is not very much so if you use more than that you are force to jump to 1500 which is too many for me.
Overall just a scheme to get more money as the people who only need <300 per month will be forced into the $10 plan.
200 is not very much so if you use more than that you are force to jump to 1500 which is too many for me.
Overall just a scheme to get more money as the people who only need <300 per month will be forced into the $10 plan.
It is, which is why they started charging for texting to begin with. People were taking the cheapest voice plan and then doing unlimited texting. Would people feel better if texting was 'free' again, but all voice plans were more expensive?
The thing is that I want to be able to text. I got my iphone and decided to go without a text plan and monitor the number of text messages. Actually there are two phones on the plan. Through the holidays the number of texts per month was about equal in cost to what we would have paid for the plan. So I decided to stick without the plan. But now I've gotten two spam texts in one week and it is ridiculous that I have to pay for this. There should be a way to delete a text without opening it to avoid charge.