Someone told me AT&T now charges 20 cents for SMS

[Steve686]

I got a feeling AT&T is also messing with the price for a regular grade gallon of gas.

Seriously though. Of course the price of per text messages will go up. The demand and usage on texting has skyrocketed in the last few years and AT&T is just following market standard....more people want and use it, charge more for it.

I have 1500 messages on my plan, but also use LOOPT and AIM to com with everyone in my lists.

If you don't have loopt, it has a cool comment feature that you can use like texting, for those of you who don't have text plans.

 

[firewood]

I disagree. Then why do they even have unlimited text plans?

The unlimited plans provide the phone company with a nice even and predictable revenue stream; and because the number of people willing to pay for those unlimited plans is currently still less than the SMS/signalling channel capacity can statistically handle. If that changes, expect the price for all plans to go up even more. Basic Econ 101.