Not fulfilling your txt message quota? You’re getting screwed.

[Vegastouch]

I have an iPhone and currently pay for 1500 txt messages per month at a rate of a cent per message.

The problem is, I send and receive on average 350 txt messages per month. That means I pay roughly 4 cents per message. One could argue that I pay 4x the amount for txt messaging over someone who causes more data congestion by using 1500 txt messages per month. Clearly, something is wrong with this picture.

What are your thoughts?

My thoughts are when i didnt have unlimited text messaging, it went over all the time because my Daughter was texting like crazy and the bill was always a lot higher so i spent the extra $10 per month and it was much lower where it should of been in the first place. So therefore, i dont care how much it comes out to be per text.
I just know im not going over and spending more.

 

[Bacong]

So basically your point is that you pay more for something than you actually use it?

Yeah, sorry dude. That's life.

 

[eezing]

Ok you gys are jest bean mean. Give the guy a brake.

I'm gonna have to agree that the 200 to 1500 jump is kind of ridiculous. I think the 750 for $7.49 plan that you have to fight tooth and nail for would be a perfect median.

Do you have this $7.49 plan?

 

[Odid]

Texting should be free. Period. It doesn't cost carriers a thing. So people saying $20 isn't much. It comes to $240 after 12 months. I'd rather spend that on something else.

Anyway. I have 750 texts for $7.50 and use Google Voice app for outgoing texts.

 

[Knowlege Bomb]

Do you have this $7.49 plan?

I lost it when I added my girlfriend to my account. No special promos for family plans I guess. Even with the two of us it would have been perfect. The strange thing is it's still showing on my CSS even though AT&T says they don't see it...

Only catch is you have to be a business customer (have a FAN #).

 

[Steve686]

If you don't use your texts, OP, you're not getting screwed. You're screwing yourself.

 

[thelatinist]

I have cable TV, available 24/7 or about 570 hours per month. I pay 49.99/mo., or about 7 cents per hour. On an average day, however, I watch only about three hours of TV. My TV cost is therefore almost 56 cents an hour! I'm getting screwed.

 

[Harman M]

I'm on Tmobile and my family has a 9.99 unlimited text plan for all four of us and we send alot out. Your getting ripped of for being on AT&T lol.

 

[intrepid00]

Um wrong. SMS requires a network to handle the sending/receiving and confirmations. So it does cost AT&T money. Those servers cost money and so does maintaining them...

SMS requires a network that has to exist anyway for your phone to even get a signal and switch towers. It isn't any additional equipment. SMS is just slipped into what is basically a heartbeat to your phone.

 

[synth3tik]

Is getting a lower number of txt messages a problem. I mean if you shoot out 350 per month, why not just pay for 400?

 

[nateo200]

In a good month I can get around 11,500 texts or so. Chalk it up to a boring job...well sometimes and having several groups of friends all text grouped together...

10am I send out several mass texts to about 70 people...maybe 45 of them respond and out of the 45, 40 continue conversations. It's like that all day!

AT&T must just love you...it's a good thing MMS isn't out yet!

 

[nehunte]

SMS requires a network that has to exist anyway for your phone to even get a signal and switch towers. It isn't any additional equipment. SMS is just slipped into what is basically a heartbeat to your phone.

And this is exactly why AT&T and Verizon are getting sued right now because of their outrageous texting prices.

And a message to the OP, if you think you're getting screwed, then start texting more and give it to the man!

 

[caligurl]

It's not about the money, its the principle. It's like buying 8 hot dogs and a package of 6 or 12 buns... I need exactly 8 buns, no more and no less.

ah, yes..... the age old dilema.... of course you could just buy 3 packages of hotdogs and 4 (or 2) packages of buns....

 

[ohio.emt]

How about no text message plan, use aim to sms, or e-mail to sms. No more charges for texting. Just have your friends send to your aim or e-mail, and have at&t block texting.