SMS Rollout Date

New promotions are now showing on the SprintPCS web site. SMS is not one
of them. In discussing messaging:

http://www.sprintpcs.com/common/popu...Messaging.html

says zero about SMS.

With Sprint employees threatening that after the rollout date SMS will
be $5 a month, but free if you're grandfathered in to Vision,
knowing that date might be useful.

so the question is:

When is the official start date for system wide promoted SMS on the
SprintPCS Network?

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Robert M. wrote:


> With Sprint employees threatening that after the rollout date SMS will
> be $5 a month,

Threatening?

> but free if you're grandfathered in to Vision,
> knowing that date might be useful.

All the brochures show that 100 SMS messages are included with Vision.
If you want more than this, then you either pay your 5 bucks, or pay per
message. There is no "grandfathering," nor is there any "threatening" here.


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In article <[email protected]>,
Isaiah Beard <[email protected]> wrote:

> All the brochures show that 100 SMS messages are included with Vision.
> If you want more than this, then you either pay your 5 bucks, or pay per
> message. There is no "grandfathering,"

A) Nothing is on line at Sprint PCS web site.

B) According to your friend Rob J Vargas, just last week, there is
grandfathering of free unlimited SMS for folks that had Vision when SMS
was introduced. So which one of you is wrong??

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From: O/Siris ([email protected])
Subject: Re: SMS Pricing
View this article onlyNewsgroups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs
Date: 2004-02-10 02:05:42 PST

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> What does everyone think of Sprint's SMS pricing plans? I think that
> the bundle of 100 seems a little low considering other carriers offer up
> to 500 messages for the same price. Then you get charged 10 cents for
> *both* incoming and outgoing messages after that, which almost forces
> one to go to the unlimited option ($10 for people without Vision, $5 for
> people with Vision).
>
> I am happy to see sms finally being rolled out, but this pricing
> structure gives me mixed feelings.
>
> Eric
>
>

It's a bit more complicated than that. Receiving messages from other
SPCS customers will be free. Sending *to* them, will not.

And Vision customers who are active prior to the launch date (and keep
that very same Vision package) will be grandfathered with unlimited
messaging.

I need to stress that. You *must* keep the exact same Vision pack. The
very one you had prior to SMS rollout. Change it in any way (i.e. to
add RL service), and now your paying for SMS if you want it unlimited.

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"Robert M." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Isaiah Beard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > All the brochures show that 100 SMS messages are included with Vision.
> > If you want more than this, then you either pay your 5 bucks, or pay per
> > message. There is no "grandfathering,"
>
> A) Nothing is on line at Sprint PCS web site.
>
> B) According to your friend Rob J Vargas, just last week, there is
> grandfathering of free unlimited SMS for folks that had Vision when SMS
> was introduced. So which one of you is wrong??

I just checked my usage and it shows UNLIMITED Wireless Web messages
(although I do have Vision and a Camera phone)

In article <[email protected]>,
"Terry Knab" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just checked my usage and it shows UNLIMITED Wireless Web messages
> (although I do have Vision and a Camera phone)

I'm not sure which those are? SMS are called SMS.

>> I just checked my usage and it shows UNLIMITED Wireless Web messages
>> (although I do have Vision and a Camera phone)
>
>I'm not sure which those are? SMS are called SMS.

Currently at Sprint, text messages, SMS, are called Wireless Web
messages.