Unlimited texting

Michael Paris wrote:
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>> Well practically speaking, does anyone actually ever send 5000
>> messages per month? That would be 165 messages per day. Maybe 3000 is
>> just as good as 5000.
>
> I see you don't have High School and Jr. HS students in your family! :-)

LOL, I do. I told my daughter that she was welcome to use her own money
to buy a fancy phone and pay for the monthly charges. She wisely decided
to stick with the parent provided PagePlus service and basic tri-mode
camera phone. Amusingly, on some school trips and athletic events at
away games, she's one of the few kids with a phone that has coverage, so
her phone gets borrowed a lot. I'll be picking her up from some event
and I have to wait while her teammates use her phone to call their parents.

I told her that she should write a report for the school paper on cell
phone coverage and cost, since so few parents and students are aware of
the low cost providers like PagePlus.

As to texting, her friends send a lot of e-mails, but texting isn't that
popular. The school doesn't allow students to use their phones during
school, only after school, and they have so much homework and so many
extra-curricular activities, that there's not a lot of time after school
for such nonsense either.

Did you see Disney's "High School Musical" movie? There's a good section
about cell phones in there.

In any case, I doubt if even high school and junior high school students
could send 165 text messages per day, but I guess it's possible when
you're sending one message to a bunch of people at once.

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:32:24 -0400, "Michael Paris"
<[email protected]> wrote in
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>> Well practically speaking, does anyone actually ever send 5000 messages
>> per month? That would be 165 messages per day. Maybe 3000 is just as
>> good as 5000.
>
>I see you don't have High School and Jr. HS students in your family! :-)

I do, and avoided any problems by using MetroPCS. Even so, the number
of text messages per month has been well under 3000.

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If I am reading this correctly, Cingular is actually offering TRUE unlimited
messaging for $19.99. This includes IM, SMS and MMS. I do not see where it
restricts it to Cingular (at&t) phone only. Below is what is says:

http://www.cingular.com/cell-phone-s...tId=cat1470003

Messaging Unlimited
You have the freedom to message any way to any one - text, picture, video
and IM - without worrying what each message costs. That means every message
counts the same. You can send and receive ANY combination of messages. Want
to send all picture messages? No problem. All IMs? Go ahead and chat away -
send and receive messages for less than pennies per day!

"nikkir" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Does cingular offer an unlimited texting plan?
> http://www.rfshieldbox.com/
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JAW wrote:
> If I am reading this correctly, Cingular is actually offering TRUE unlimited
> messaging for $19.99. This includes IM, SMS and MMS. I do not see where it
> restricts it to Cingular (at&t) phone only. Below is what is says:

Yes, this is new.

Prior to this offering, the texting rates were:

In Network MTM Out of Network

ATTWS Sprnt T-Mob VZW ATTWS Sprnt T-Mob VZW
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
$5 0/Unlim 0 0 x 200 300 400 x
$10 Unlim Unlim 0 Unlim 200 Unlim 1000 500
$15 Unlim Unlim 400 Unlim 1500
$20 Unlim Unlim 1000 5000
$20 0 3000
$25 Unlim 3000


Now they are:

In Network MTM Out of Network

ATTWS Sprnt T-Mob VZW ATTWS Sprnt T-Mob VZW
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
$5 0/Unlim 0 0 x 200 300 400 x
$10 Unlim Unlim 0 Unlim 200 Unlim 1000 500
$15 Unlim Unlim 400 Unlim 1500
$20 Unlim Unlim Unlim 5000



AT&T/Cingular basically dropped their pricing significantly.
Not as low as Sprint or T-Mobile, but more in
line with Verizon who offers 5000 messages a month for $20 (which is the
same as unlimited for most users!).

At 08 May 2007 12:01:45 -0700 SMS wrote:

> AT&T/Cingular basically dropped their pricing significantly.
>
> Not as low as Sprint or T-Mobile, but more in line with Verizon who
> offers 5000 messages a month for $20 (which is the same as unlimited
> for most users!).

I'm surprised Verizon doesn't call the 5000 texts plan "unlimited
texting," considering they're the same outfit that calls 5GB of data
"unlimited internet!" ;-)

Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 08 May 2007 12:01:45 -0700 SMS wrote:
>
>> AT&T/Cingular basically dropped their pricing significantly.
>>
>> Not as low as Sprint or T-Mobile, but more in line with Verizon who
>> offers 5000 messages a month for $20 (which is the same as unlimited
>> for most users!).
>
> I'm surprised Verizon doesn't call the 5000 texts plan "unlimited
> texting," considering they're the same outfit that calls 5GB of data
> "unlimited internet!" ;-)

Very funny. 5GB is really nothing close to what a heavy user could use
in a month, but to send 5000 text messages you'd be sending about 170
messages per day.