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  1. #16
    Daniel Tso
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    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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  2. #17
    Jerome Zelinske
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    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.



  3. #18
    Isaiah Beard
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    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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  4. #19
    Isaiah Beard
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    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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  5. #20
    Steve Sobol
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    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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