- 03-21-2010, 11:14 AM #1Member
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I'm a current ATT subscriber. I've got a text message plan for 200 texts for $5. I have no data plan currently. If I were to get an iPhone, would the data charge of $30 be the only increase to my monthly bill? Does the data plan include texting?
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- 03-21-2010, 12:51 PM #3Member
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- 03-21-2010, 03:16 PM #4Junior Member
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if you get the iphone.. you will have the price of the phone and a 30 dollar a month data package charge. Texting is another added cost. per month. you probably have to add some taxes in on that
- 03-21-2010, 04:06 PM #5Member
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I've got the taxes already. I suppose they could go up a little because I'm buying more service, but it shouldn't be significant. Just trying to decide if the iphone is worth $30 a month to me.
Thanks for the info.johnny
- 03-22-2010, 12:49 AM #6
- 03-22-2010, 06:21 AM #7Member
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- 03-22-2010, 06:33 AM #8
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Multimedia messages come out of your messaging plan. Multimedia files may consist of pictures, audio files, video files, text or a combination of those. The iPhone does not fully implement the multimedia message specifications. With the iPhone you can only send multimedia files if they contain attachments. With the iPhone all messages to email addresses are sent as multimedia messages regardless of the contents. Multimedia messages require a cellular data connection to send and receive. Those messages as well as text messages cannot be sent via Wi-Fi.
- 03-26-2010, 12:11 PM #9Junior Member
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In Canada Rogers rips off its customers. your lucky
- 03-27-2010, 12:42 PM #10Newbie
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Everything ads up, you'll be surprised
- 04-14-2010, 02:27 PM #11
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You probably ended up paying $70 a month
- 04-15-2010, 02:39 PM #12Member
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Are Tweets charged the same as a text message?
johnny
- 04-16-2010, 01:00 PM #13
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I think tweets is using data. or wifi
- 04-16-2010, 01:21 PM #14Member
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I talked to ATT today on the phone. Email is covered by the unlimited data plan. Messaging, which includes texting and tweets, is under the text plan.
johnny
- 04-18-2010, 01:59 AM #15
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Look, it's pretty straightforward. AT&T included 200 text messages with the original iPhone rate plans, but have since dropped that with the 3G and 3GS. Therefore, you'll need to either continue to buy text messages at $5 a month, or drop that to help offset the data plan cost. Text messages do use voice services, and MMS messages do use data, but it's now billed separately. It's a moot point what's data and what's not, it's about what AT&T charges for what. There are texting apps you can get, so you can drop the $5 texting if you want to and use a texting app. I have the 450 minute plan for $69.95 and the $5 / 200 message texting and with taxes, I pay $83.17 a month. you can shave $5 a month if you drop the texting plan which would put you in the $78 a month area. (Actually, I just went to work for a company who has AT&T as a client, and I just added the 15 percent discount to my phone plan, so I'm excited to see next month's bill
ETA: Just to clarify, I have the $39.99 450 minute plan (plus the $30 iPhone data plan) plus $5 text plus taxes. Also, after examining my bill, I've noticed that text messages are listed under the Summary of Wireless Data, so regardless of what service is being used to transport the messages, AT&T considers text messaging (SMS or MMS) to be data. After a bit of calculating, it appears my bill should drop to about $72 after my 15 percent discount kicks in next bill.
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