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Now that you have iMessage, have you cancelled your Text Plan?
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I haven't canceled it yet, but I'm thinking about it. Most of the people that I text have an iPhone, and it would probably be cheaper for me to just pay the pay-per-use fee on the others. But I'm going to wait a few billing cycles and see what would work best.
I'm still grandfathered into my 1500 text/month for $15 plan on AT&T.
Like many have stated already, not everyone I text has an iDevice, but many do, and I use iMessage daily. I find iMessage to be useful, however it doesn't always work 100% of the time with everybody. Sometimes, after a delay, the phone will simply send it as a text message instead.
So no, I'm not trying to cancel my text plan.
Like many have stated already, not everyone I text has an iDevice, but many do, and I use iMessage daily. I find iMessage to be useful, however it doesn't always work 100% of the time with everybody. Sometimes, after a delay, the phone will simply send it as a text message instead.
So no, I'm not trying to cancel my text plan.
I wish I could cancel it, but with a kid on my family plan that doesn't have an iPhone, I have to have unlimited texting. The side benefit with AT&T is that the unlimited plan also gives you unlimited cell to cell calls (on any network in the US). This has reduced my minutes use enough to reduce my monthly plan, saving me $10 per month. I may be able to cut back further, but wanted to watch how things play out for a couple of months.
No, I still have my 1000 texting plan on AT&T. This is because not everyone in my contacts have an iphone so I still use my texting.
I disabled iMessage. A system that relies on mobile data connections can never (even theoretically) be as reliable as the SMS protocol is, and the vast (vast vast vast vast) majority of people I know don't own iPhones.
The few people who I knew who do have all found iMessage to be extremely unreliable.
That said, text message plans are nearly unique to the US's bizarre underregulated telecoms market, so it's not like such a thing exists in most other territories either.
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I didn't cancel, but I went from having to carefully monitor my 200 plan to now where I don't have to think about it in the least.
I'm probably texting more like 1,000 per month using iMessage...things I would have held off on before, now I send them without worry.
I'm probably texting more like 1,000 per month using iMessage...things I would have held off on before, now I send them without worry.
I don't know what the point of this thread is. The majority of people out there including myself still text people who don't have iPhones so there is no way we can switch exclusively to iMessage.
You can send texts to people without a plan. Someone earlier in the thread said they were considering going to a pay-per-text method.
So the question is totally fine...there's already someone who answered 'maybe soon.'
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I went almost two months before I texted someone with an iPhone. If you're in a VZW or Sprint dominated market, you likely have the same problem. I'd imagine only AT&T dominated markets could even consider dumping the text plan at this point.
Would never get rid of my text plan to many non IPhone contacts but that is changing as more people I know get IPhones 
Same thing here, except I use TextFree. Sooooo glad I kept my $5 plan before AT&T (shrewdly) made iMessage useless for most of its customers by making unlimited texts the only option.
The only annoying thing is several people I have to text somewhat regularly at/for work have iPhones and haven't updated to 5.0+ so I have to still watch my 200 messages because of that.
Another thing I noticed is that iMessage will send an SMS by default if the iMessage fails. I have a few friends I text quite a bit and I had to tell them to turn that option off because they would constantly be sending me text messages inadvertently. I had one friend who has the LOWEST data plan and CONSTANTLY turns her data off and in the middle of iMessage convos start sending me a ton of SMS texts. So I've now told her when she gets out of wifi range she needs to text me on TextFree
It does use more battery because it's going over a 3G signal. I can see how that would be annoying to people new to iMessage. I do remember when I first started using TextFree exclusively my usage did drop by about an hour. I've been using TextFree almost exlclusively for a year or two so I'm used to the ~1 hour less total usage so don't really notice the iMessage drop.
Anyway, I'm really surprised more people aren't mad about the now mandatory unlimited text message plan basically rendering iMessage useless. If you have unlimited texts already, you're not "saving" anything by using iMessage and that's largely the whole point. Shrewd move AT&T, shrewd move!
Before iMessage, I'd use ~1500 text messages per month. Now with iMessage, my entire family used a total of 48 (I'm on the family unlimited text message plan with 3 lines). I could probably get rid of the text, but I want to wait another billing cycle or two just to see if this month is a fluke or not.
att smelled the threat of imessage a mile away and now only offers unlimited text or pay as you go text. very greedy of them to do so, as i'm sure a good portion of iphone users would happily downgrade their texting plan to save some money. glad att didn't swallow up tmobile.
I added a text plan back to my account once i started using iMessage. I used to used google voice exclusively. Once I starting using iMessage, I found it was 100% reliable. So i added texting back to my plan so that I could send texts as a backup.
I'm grandfathered in the $5 plan and it's plenty for me. If I dropped texting I would end up spending more than the $5 so I'll just keep it.
i keep trying to tell all my friends to buy iPhones to save me a couple bucks on texting, and so i can monitor long it takes them to respond to my messages after they read them, but for some reason they aren't being swayed by these well-formed arguments.
even worse, sometimes they have the gall to tell me to switch to blackberry so i can lock myself into their stupid proprietary BBM system.
even worse, sometimes they have the gall to tell me to switch to blackberry so i can lock myself into their stupid proprietary BBM system.
Pot, kettle.i keep trying to tell all my friends to buy iPhones to save me a couple bucks on texting, and so i can monitor long it takes them to respond to my messages after they read them, but for some reason they aren't being swayed by these well-formed arguments.
even worse, sometimes they have the gall to tell me to switch to blackberry so i can lock myself into their stupid proprietary BBM system.
