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- 08-24-2005, 02:00 AM #16Daniel TsoGuest
Re: Sprint's texting extortion
In article <[email protected]>, "John Richards" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>> David Emerling <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, it's $5.
>>>
>>
>> No, it is $15 (or $10 as stated). Each ADDITIONAL line is $5 for
>> vision, which is why your teenager's phones are only costing you $5. You
>> must have vision on your phone already.
>
>I don't know if this is a quirk, but I was able to get Vision on
>my second line for $5 without having Vision on my primary line.
>It was ordered as an add-on long after my family plan had been
>established.
Yes, occasionally, CS reps goof up and offer $5/mo Vision on subs
even if the primary doesn't have Vision. This happened to me as well.
Obviously it is a great deal if that happens!
They are supposed to make the first Vision phone the primary, at $10 or
$15/mo.
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- 08-25-2005, 06:40 AM #17Jerome ZelinskeGuest
Re: Sprint's texting extortion
I have text messaging included with my Vision. I have no use for it.
I wish they offered Vision without any text messaging at a lower price.
- 08-25-2005, 11:16 AM #18Isaiah BeardGuest
Re: Sprint's texting extortion
Steve Sobol wrote:
> Well, not giving it out doesn't always help. If you happen to know a
> telephone exchange belongs to Sprint PCS, and you know how to send email
> to a Sprint text messaging addressare addressed to Sprint, you
> automatically have up to 10,000 email addresses that deliver text
> messages to cell phones ("up to" because some of the numbers may have
> been ported out).
Never once in the past 5 years I was with Sprint did I get a spam this way.
> The best thing to do, if you don't want the messages,
> is to turn messaging off.
Exactly.
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- 08-25-2005, 11:18 AM #19Isaiah BeardGuest
Re: Sprint's texting extortion
O/Siris wrote:
>>>I find it outrageous that SPRINT charges the customer for *receiving* text
>>>messages even if they have not signed up for any of their texting plans.
>>
>>1. All US carriers do this, not just Sprint
>>
>
>
> Actually, not. US Cellular does not charge for incoming/received text
> messages.
Great for U.S. Cellular. Though, it would be nice if they covered the
whole US.
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- 08-25-2005, 07:41 PM #20Steve SobolGuest
Re: Sprint's texting extortion
Isaiah Beard wrote:
> Steve Sobol wrote:
>
>> Well, not giving it out doesn't always help. If you happen to know a
>> telephone exchange belongs to Sprint PCS, and you know how to send
>> email to a Sprint text messaging addressare addressed to Sprint, you
>> automatically have up to 10,000 email addresses that deliver text
>> messages to cell phones ("up to" because some of the numbers may have
>> been ported out).
>
>
> Never once in the past 5 years I was with Sprint did I get a spam this way.
I got stuff on my VZW phone. From eCost/PCMall, who as I understand are
pretty unrepentant spammers. I never gave them my email address and my
assumption is that they spammed a block of vtext.com addresses that included
either my old VTEXT email alias (sjsobol at vtext.com) or my
[email protected] email address.
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