So AT&T only offers unlimited or pay per text texting options?! What a joke! I thought they used to offer 3 or 4 different plans?
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AT&T Texting Plans
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Yeah it is a total joke. They got rid of their other texting plans a year ago or so. Luckily we have iMessage and 3rd party texting options if you do not want to pay for unlimited
I was planning to get rid of unlimited but also wanted to get maybe a 500 text plan for texts I send to non iPhone users but I guess I'll go the 3rd party route. But AT&T really does things that make you wanna switch carriers
iMessage of course alleviates this if messaging other Apple OS users. (But uses data from your data plan).
Others on this thread have also recommended Google's free texting & voice options, although I've never tried them myself.
Others on this thread have also recommended Google's free texting & voice options, although I've never tried them myself.
I would dump it; but of course it's bundled with UL mobile to mobile calling which is tied to my minutes plan.
They always get you somehow.
They always get you somehow.
You can purchase a local area code number for $0.99 on Text plus. Which it doesn't really matter, but it makes it easier for people to remember.
I was just using the pay per use. I never paid more than $5 a month. Now I'm on mobile share and have unlimited on all lines. I agree it's bad that they dropped the 200 and 1000 plans.
spoken by someone with no teenagers.
Totally.
The perfect teenager plane would be unlimited text, data, and no voice. I remember when I got the first bill where my daughter went over 3000 texts. We were on the family plan the next day. That was a few years ago, btw.
Yep, all the carriers are moving towards the unlimited texting model. Verizon doesn't give new family customers a choice either. Sprint doesn't give you a choice either.
It's ironic how a few years ago, texting was a huge profit margin for carriers as they pushed texting tiered plans. Now with third party apps, they basically shove unlimited texting or zero texting option.
Exactly! And I know I'll be texting around that per month with friends without iOS devices
WhatsApp (but security issues, and forces others to have the same app)
BeeJiveIM (not free) (or other AIM client) Can add mobile numbers to buddy list, and SMS back and forth. You would want one that supports Push.
^--my preferred before I added the little texting account when ATT announced it was drying up.
GTalk client (BeeJive has a free one http://www.beejive.com/iphone/gtalk/) (Google Voice) etc. GMail accounts are pretty ubiquitous, can chat back and forth to mobile. http://www.google.com/mobile/sms/voice/ Pretty much if a person doesn't have an iPhone for iMessage, they are going to have an Android with a GMail account tied to it. So this should work out really well in theory.
And that's EXACTLY why I still keep my 1500 texts for $15/month plan. And, with the 22% FAN discount on my bill that I get from my employer, that basically covers the texting each month.
That said, I really only use 300-500 texts/month because MOST of who I text with have iDevices, so iMessage has become a rather large part of life for me.
But I still keep the grandfathered texting plan, as a just-in-caser.
That said, I really only use 300-500 texts/month because MOST of who I text with have iDevices, so iMessage has become a rather large part of life for me.
But I still keep the grandfathered texting plan, as a just-in-caser.