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 |  LinklistPremium
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kudos:5 | Re: When will AT&T stop RAPING their consumers? said by geoffreyq:When will AT&T finally realize that they are RAPING their consumers? First they blocked tethering, then they put forth 2GB data plans, and now THIS!
In financial terms it is called "milking the cow". SMS is dying (SLOWLY) and AT&T and other providers will squeeze every nickle out of it until it does die. That is normal business and has always been so.
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|  pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by geoffreyq:When will AT&T finally realize that they are RAPING their consumers? You cannot rape the willing.
As long as people purchase from AT&T, they will keep doing this. Of course the government continues to rubber-stamp every telecom/Internet merger that comes down the pike so simply switching providers is becoming less of a viable option to deal with this.
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|  n2jtx
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Glen Head, NY | said by geoffreyq:When will AT&T finally realize that they are RAPING their consumers? First they blocked tethering, then they put forth 2GB data plans, and now THIS!
Realize? You're kidding right? Of course they know what they are doing. It isn't like AT&T's executives will wake up one morning and say "oh my god, we are really sticking it to customers. we need to reduce prices and give customers more options". Not going to happen...
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| quatrixPremium
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kudos:2 | Text messaging isn't a critical, life-or-death service for normal people. They charge what customers will pay just like any company, as they should. I use Google Voice when I have a legitimate reason to send a text message every 3 or 4 months. | |
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| TheMGPremium
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kudos:1 | Vote with your wallet.
Do you really NEED the service? | |
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| | | |  Re: When will AT&T stop RAPING their consumers?
They won't let customers block incoming texts and they still charge for them. I get numerous unwanted texts every month. | |
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| | | | | Re: When will AT&T stop RAPING their consumers? said by canesfan2001:How?
They won't let customers block incoming texts and they still charge for them. I get numerous unwanted texts every month.
»mymessages.wireless.att.com/ how to block text | |
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|  r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
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Katy, TX | $10 dollars for 1000 txt messages would be about 150KB total for $10.
That would be the price of $66,000 per Gigabyte.
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| elray
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Santa Monica, CA | said by geoffreyq:When will AT&T finally realize that they are RAPING their consumers? First they blocked tethering, then they put forth 2GB data plans, and now THIS!
Their customers are free to go elsewhere. But they won't. | |
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New Orleans, LA | Re: When will AT&T stop RAPING their consumers? said by elray:said by geoffreyq:When will AT&T finally realize that they are RAPING their consumers? First they blocked tethering, then they put forth 2GB data plans, and now THIS!
Their customers are free to go elsewhere. But they won't. Well no, most are not free. Nevermind that most are tied to absurd high penalty fees...most have nowhere else to go as the competition is laughable in most areas and the few that do have multiple companies find that most have the same sky-high prices across the board | |
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Santa Monica, CA | Re: When will AT&T stop RAPING their consumers? said by Van:said by elray:said by geoffreyq:When will AT&T finally realize that they are RAPING their consumers? First they blocked tethering, then they put forth 2GB data plans, and now THIS!
Their customers are free to go elsewhere. But they won't. Well no, most are not free. Nevermind that most are tied to absurd high penalty fees...most have nowhere else to go as the competition is laughable in most areas and the few that do have multiple companies find that most have the same sky-high prices across the board No, sorry. They ARE all free to go - the new rates do not apply to existing contracts. Early termination fees are not relevant - you committed to those up front when you were salivating over the latest gizmo.
The competition does offer better rates for nearly every class of service.
Unfortunately, if you don't bother to shop, you'll never discover that.
And that's why AT&T is able to continue their practice. | |
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New Orleans, LA | Re: When will AT&T stop RAPING their consumers? said by elray:No, sorry. They ARE all free to go - the new rates do not apply to existing contracts. Early termination fees are not relevant - you committed to those up front when you were salivating over the latest gizmo.
The competition does offer better rates for nearly every class of service.
Unfortunately, if you don't bother to shop, you'll never discover that.
And that's why AT&T is able to continue their practice.
No need to apologize. As I said and is done every day, most are not free to leave with the hundreds of dollars in penalties leveled against them for wanting to get out months after buying the phone.
Did you happen to stick your head under a pillow recently when AT&T jacked up their ETF's for what...the 3rd time in 2 years? Did you happen to see the sheer number wanting to switch yet not doing so b/c they didn't want to pay an absurd amount even after months of buying the original phone?
If I wanted to choose a company that offered coverage in my area WITHOUT any ETF's, I would not have had any cell phone in 3 of the last 4 cities that I lived in. Ah, what great competition. I had so many choices!
This site sees story after story of people begging someone else besides AT&T or Verizon to come into their area and offer something...anything....remotely decent....and they would jump
But, they can't...and they won't b/c cell phones or service is vital to their jobs, families, etc...and the need of it in general will override the absolutely atrocious service given to them.
The idea of competition being there but the thousands of people on here and elsewhere who cant find it...are just missing it somehow....I mean, huh? Do people not laugh out loud at the stupidity of that? | |
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Santa Monica, CA | Re: When will AT&T stop RAPING their consumers? said by Van:No need to apologize. As I said and is done every day, most are not free to leave with the hundreds of dollars in penalties leveled against them for wanting to get out months after buying the phone.
Did you happen to stick your head under a pillow recently when AT&T jacked up their ETF's for what...the 3rd time in 2 years? Did you happen to see the sheer number wanting to switch yet not doing so b/c they didn't want to pay an absurd amount even after months of buying the original phone?
If I wanted to choose a company that offered coverage in my area WITHOUT any ETF's, I would not have had any cell phone in 3 of the last 4 cities that I lived in. Ah, what great competition. I had so many choices!
Once again - those supposedly "raped" by AT&T's terms do so voluntarily - they only apply to new customers. Those are the customers referenced at the top of this thread. The rest of the flock, under contract, joined voluntarily, with the full knowledge of the ETF / balloon payment, which did not increase within their contract. ETF's were increased with new "smart" phones, to buy down the phone and the rate plan. No one was forced to sign those agreements or buy those phones. Everyone in question is free to go.
I don't know where you live or shop, but I've yet to go anywhere in this country that I couldn't obtain a cell phone from a half-dozen companies without an ETF. Maybe you should ask here, or on HowardForums, before you make your next commitment.
said by Van:This site sees story after story of people begging someone else besides AT&T or Verizon to come into their area and offer something...anything....remotely decent....and they would jump
But, they can't...and they won't b/c cell phones or service is vital to their jobs, families, etc...and the need of it in general will override the absolutely atrocious service given to them.
The idea of competition being there but the thousands of people on here and elsewhere who cant find it...are just missing it somehow....I mean, huh? Do people not laugh out loud at the stupidity of that?
Competition exists all over the place, but in the populist DSLR forum, it is ignored and belittled. I grew up in the monopoly era, and watched it be torn down by the DOJ and Judge Greene, with a little help from the FCC and Congress. I would have preferred we kept the regulated [natural] monopoly, but that ship has sailed.
But of all the domains concerned here (Broadband, Landline, Cellphones/Wireless, Pay TV), cellphones are by far the winner in the deregulation derby. If you can't find multiple competitive options in your town, indeed, maybe we should laugh out loud at the stupidity, if we were as uncivil as Maxine Waters. Where in this country is anyone so limited? | |
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|  Duramax08Win8 sucksPremium
join:2008-08-03
San Antonio, TX | Re: at least add free incoming. yeah, i dont have any texting plans and i use to get spam texts and found out they were charging me for them. i told them to blocking texting and i think they said it would cost a fee to do so. assholes....... | |
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| | | | Re: at least add free incoming. I had the same problem with Verizon, but got them to block text completely since I very rarely even used it. no charge. | |
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kudos:7 | Then you aren't an AT&T customer. If you are receiving texts, you're paying for them. Any plan without text messaging will not be able to send or receive texts AT ALL -- they simply disappear. (and it's been like that for some time now.) Up 'til this week maybe, AT&T had "no text" plans. | |
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| | | | | Re: at least add free incoming. said by cramer:Then you aren't an AT&T customer. If you are receiving texts, you're paying for them. Any plan without text messaging will not be able to send or receive texts AT ALL -- they simply disappear. (and it's been like that for some time now.) Up 'til this week maybe, AT&T had "no text" plans.
i got news for ya, ive had att for going on 4 years, and i didnt start out with a text "plan" guess what? it was charged "per use" you know, like 411, but i guess if you dont have a 411 plan you cant use 411 right? sorry but txt was $0.20 and MMS was $0.35 each, with out a "plan" only way they just "vanished" was if you had it blocked, or they screwed up on provisiong and blocked it (course, if you never used it, thats not a bad screw up) | |
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kudos:7 | Re: at least add free incoming. The way the plans have been for several years now, you can opt for no text messaging (no charges), per-use (sent and received), bundled ($5/200, later $10/1000), and unlimited ($20). Whatever plan you had remained active until you touched the wrong thing / walked past an AT&T store / etc.
I, and several of my friends, know too well what happens when AT&T removes SMS from your cellphone. (In fact, Rob ran into this very thing yesterday when upgrading his phone -- and the AT&T store minion lied about the available plans, shocking I know; there is a smartphone 200 SMS plan (as of this afternoon anyway).) | |
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| | | | | | | Re: at least add free incoming. said by cramer:The way the plans have been for several years now, you can opt for no text messaging (no charges), per-use (sent and received), bundled ($5/200, later $10/1000), and unlimited ($20). Whatever plan you had remained active until you touched the wrong thing / walked past an AT&T store / etc.
I, and several of my friends, know too well what happens when AT&T removes SMS from your cellphone. (In fact, Rob ran into this very thing yesterday when upgrading his phone -- and the AT&T store minion lied about the available plans, shocking I know; there is a smartphone 200 SMS plan (as of this afternoon anyway).)
thats my point, "per use" is automatic. unless you specifically "demand" to have it blocked. and yeah it seems that any time i make the slightest little change they screw up the txt messaging and i call and it "wasnt provisioned correctly, sorry sir", very annoying. | |
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| | | | | | said by thedragonmas:said by cramer:Then you aren't an AT&T customer. If you are receiving texts, you're paying for them. Any plan without text messaging will not be able to send or receive texts AT ALL -- they simply disappear. (and it's been like that for some time now.) Up 'til this week maybe, AT&T had "no text" plans.
i got news for ya, ive had att for going on 4 years, and i didnt start out with a text "plan" guess what? it was charged "per use" you know, like 411, but i guess if you dont have a 411 plan you cant use 411 right? sorry but txt was $0.20 and MMS was $0.35 each, with out a "plan" only way they just "vanished" was if you had it blocked, or they screwed up on provisiong and blocked it (course, if you never used it, thats not a bad screw up) Respectfully sir, you are incorrect. Pay-per-use Text messaging is a text messaging plan. If you remove it from your service, you will be unable to send/receive SMS/MMS messages. There is no cost for this.
I know this first-hand, as this is what I did... and my wife works for AT&T Customer Service as a Wireless CSR. Even she says they suck. (and yes, she hates her job...) | |
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| | | | | | | Re: at least add free incoming. said by LinuxNinja:said by thedragonmas:said by cramer:Then you aren't an AT&T customer. If you are receiving texts, you're paying for them. Any plan without text messaging will not be able to send or receive texts AT ALL -- they simply disappear. (and it's been like that for some time now.) Up 'til this week maybe, AT&T had "no text" plans.
i got news for ya, ive had att for going on 4 years, and i didnt start out with a text "plan" guess what? it was charged "per use" you know, like 411, but i guess if you dont have a 411 plan you cant use 411 right? sorry but txt was $0.20 and MMS was $0.35 each, with out a "plan" only way they just "vanished" was if you had it blocked, or they screwed up on provisiong and blocked it (course, if you never used it, thats not a bad screw up) Respectfully sir, you are incorrect. Pay-per-use Text messaging is a text messaging plan. If you remove it from your service, you will be unable to send/receive SMS/MMS messages. There is no cost for this. I know this first-hand, as this is what I did... and my wife works for AT&T Customer Service as a Wireless CSR. Even she says they suck. (and yes, she hates her job...) im sorry, but did you miss my post directly above you?
said by thedragonmas:thats my point, "per use" is automatic. unless you specifically "demand" to have it blocked. and yeah it seems that any time i make the slightest little change they screw up the txt messaging and i call and it "wasnt provisioned correctly, sorry sir", very annoying.
it may be a "plan" but its "default" unless you specifically request it be removed. just like pay per use *69 or long distance on a landline (with out a long distance "plan") | |
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| It comes down to what the market will bear I often hear how something doesn't cost the provider anything to provide it, and I have to wonder, why does that matter? Trade is based on something people want and how much they're willing to pony up for it.
The market for sms or mms isn't based on what it costs a cell phone provider to deliver it; it's based on how much in demand those products are and for what price. It doesn't cost a music content provider but a penny or two in bandwidth to deliver an mp3 to me (if that, even), but if I want the song bad enough to pay $1.29 for it, then I'll pay for it. | |
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| | | Re: It comes down to what the market will bear MaBell just jumped the shark. People need to switch to free-texting apps at this rate.
If you really support small gov't and/or tax cuts, you wouldn't be feeding the AT&T troll. | |
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|  BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | Re: 10 MILLION Percent And their data is priced at least 10X higher than it should be.
It takes 7 million texts using all 160 characters to equal 1 GB of data. You'd have to send and receive 19,000 a day to use that much in a year. So even if you buy at&t's notion that 1 GB cost $10 texting shouldn't be more than $10 a year. What's sad is if at&t charged say just $5 a month for unlimited texting a year they'd still make over $5 billion a year. Yet that's not enough. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: 10 MILLION Percent What exactly is the difference between "screwing" a customer and trying to maximize profits from one? | |
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join:2000-08-12
Brunswick, ME | Re: 10 MILLION Percent said by quatrix:What exactly is the difference between "screwing" a customer and trying to maximize profits from one?
that is the million dollar question | |
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Camden, TN | Re: 10 MILLION Percent said by duked:said by quatrix:What exactly is the difference between "screwing" a customer and trying to maximize profits from one?
that is the million dollar question more like $100 billion. | |
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kudos:2 | Perspective? Obviously many consumers don't believe they're getting "screwed too hard" as they continue to willingly hand money over to AT&T. | |
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| | I know how to fix them! Just thought how to fix them. Get the $20 unlimited texting plan and get a program to send your data via texts. You can send unlimited 160 byte packets and start racking up megabytes worth of texts!! | |
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BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | Interesting facts from at&t website
Key Facts
We are the largest communications holding company in the world by revenue. Operating globally under the AT&T brand, we are:
Proud to offer one of the world's most advanced and powerful global backbone networks, carrying 23.7 petabytes of data traffic on an average business day to nearly every continent and country, with up to 99.999 percent reliability.
Ok so if data actually cost $10 per GB at&t would be spending $250 million a DAY( or $90 billion a year ) on data. We all know they don't. | |
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| | | Re: Google Voice +1 by me I have that plan too, and upon reading the comments on the article, apparently that's been gone for several months now.
I'm holding onto it as long as I can, as most of my friends don't know my Google Voice number. I usually only use 100-150 texts a month max, but that's enough that $5 a month is still a good deal. | |
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| I use Google Voice as well. For messaging people it works very well, especially if you have messages pushed to your phone so they show up just like normal text messages.
The problem with it though is you can't text to any of the short code numbers that companies use. They simple don't work with Google Voice (or any of the other free SMS services).
The other problem, at least on the iPhone, is that when you text someone it defaults to SMS, not Google Voice. With iOS 5, it will default to iMessage, but only if the person you are texting has an iPhone. If not it uses SMS. So to text using Google Voice you have to remember to actually open the app. I believe Android can use Google Voice by default (obviously).
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| | | | Re: Google Voice +1 by me When jailbroken on iOS4, you can install "GV Extensions" and "SMS GV Extensions" which reroute Google Voice messages and calls through the iPhone's native phone and messages apps (using the native Google Voice app's push notifications for alerts). It's a hack, yes, but it replicates the Android functionality. As soon as I get around to upgrading my iOS, I'm installing those first thing. | |
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| | Blame the FCC They allowed this duopoly of Verizon/AT&T. Give Verizon a month and they will do the same thing. Consumers must suffer with this lack of options... its our fault... its our government. | |
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join:2002-10-01
Anchorage, AK | Next up: 200 MB data plan. Better kiss that 200 MB plan goodbye if you want it. Oh, and next year the 2 GB plan is gone in favor of the 4 GB+tethering plan. Better lock yourself in soon!
To hell with this; a local carrier is launching their HSPA+ network soon. As soon as my contract is up, I'm dropping AT&T, unlocking my iPhone, and taking it elsewhere. I'll buy an unlocked iPhone when the then-coming version comes out.
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|  gigahurtzPremium
join:2001-10-20
Palm Coast, FL | Re: Next up: 200 MB data plan. I don't see this happening. The 200MB plan allows AT&T to target those "casual" smartphone users. The moms, the dads, hell even the grandparents. They don't use a lot of data but want a smartphone. Hey, it's only $15 a month! | |
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SMS/MMS is so '90's now.
Plus geting back $20 a month...WIN!!!!
EDIT: BTW, you can tell AT&T to block all incoming/outgoing SMS/MMS to your number, so if anyone tries to send you a SMS, it's blocked and you don't get charged.
Need to send SMS? Google Voice, Skype...the list is long. | |
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| BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: We dropped txt about 2 wks ago said by millerja01a:Need to send SMS? Google Voice, Skype...the list is long.
Sure just get a new number you ave to tell everyone to use. that's not a pain. | |
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join:2007-08-16
Dallas, PA | I would use GV for all texting.... However it's still too inconvenient to give people my GV number, then when I miss their call, I have to make sure I call using my GV number otherwise they will have my real cell number.
It's not very convenient.... | |
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| rmdir
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Chicago, IL | Re: I would use GV for all texting.... If you are on Android, get the free program Flex Dialer Light. My dial pattern is A,B,2,C#, | |
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join:2001-10-28
united state | ATT Must Hate Me I am still clinging on to the $5 per month SMS option and I'm not letting go! | |
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It's not a problem with a Blackberry, but why then would I want an Android on your worthless network? Bye bye USCC, time to go to a prepaid dumbphone.
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Perhaps they're different in other more competitive regions. Here in MD, their overage limit is now $200. They're essentially charging $250 a GB, which makes AT&T and Verizon look like saints. | |
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join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | Protest Too Much, Much? I haven't been an AT&T customer since 1995, when other pastures opened up. Today, there are near a dozen alternatives.
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| | It's not so bad The $20 unlimited text plan is not that bad. Anyone who subscribes also gets unlimited mobile to ANY mobile essentially getting unlimited calling.
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| | | Re: It's not so bad said by ToxicDrew:The $20 unlimited text plan is not that bad. Anyone who subscribes also gets unlimited mobile to ANY mobile essentially getting unlimited calling.
maybe if you talk a lot thats a good bargain, i just checked my roll over balance. 5,973 roll over mins, thats about 99.5 hours. so calling other phones isnt a problem for me. now if they wanted to do it, unlimited txt for $10 and add unlimited mobile to any other mobile for just $10 more, sure. | |
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It's not automatic. You are referring to two different plans that happen to be the same price.
My wife services a LOT of calls switching customers to this plan as an AT&T Wireless CSR. You're lucky you already have this plan. | |
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| | | | Re: It's not so bad said by LinuxNinja:said by ToxicDrew:The $20 unlimited text plan is not that bad. Anyone who subscribes also gets unlimited mobile to ANY mobile essentially getting unlimited calling.
It's not automatic. You are referring to two different plans that happen to be the same price. My wife services a LOT of calls switching customers to this plan as an AT&T Wireless CSR. You're lucky you already have this plan. i have to respectuflly disagree, as you can clearly see by the most recent "at&t mobility newsletter" unlimited texting now entitles you to unlimited mobile to any mobile.
unlimited mobile to any mobile included with unlimited text plan
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It's not automatic. You are referring to two different plans that happen to be the same price. My wife services a LOT of calls switching customers to this plan as an AT&T Wireless CSR. You're lucky you already have this plan. i have to respectuflly disagree, as you can clearly see by the most recent "at&t mobility newsletter" unlimited texting now entitles you to unlimited mobile to any mobile. [att=1] edit: cropped image for better fit Guess AT&T finally got the hint... so much time was spent changing plans by their CSRs that they must have decided to just change them all en-mass...
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Brunswick, ME | Do we really need all this Do we really need all the "toys" that come with these smart phones?
I have to admit,I think these phones are cool and I have had a couple in the past. Then I got the bills with the 2 year contract which basically says "gotta for 2 years". it was just ridiculous.
2 years later i have a 35 dollar a month phone,and it does everything I need a phone to do,talk to people. I remember the reason to get a cell phone,for me and the wife was. if the car broke down or something like that. we could call for help.
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join:2000-07-11
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kudos:2 | Re: Do we really need all this Prepaid cell service works well for this. (And for my cell usage as well). | |
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as to your OP, some of those features are nice, but definitly not worth the mandatory fee's. i tryd a smartphone for a short time because all i wanted was the large screen and it was the only phone i could find with text to speech. but paying the mandatory fee's just to get text to speech was a bitch much.
if i could find a standard phone with talking voice mail (name as well, not just the number) and could do said text to speach for txt's, id be set. | |
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| | Anybody ever hear of email? Don't think I saw a single mention of email in this thread. You know that email address you have? That everybody already knows? Setup up your smartphone email to use IMAP IDLE to the server instead of ancient POP3. Tell your phone to "ding" when you get an email. It is instantaneous, no waiting for the email client to poll every XX minutes.
Problem solved, same thing as text messaging using what you already have, and an address your friends already know. No need for an SMS app with a phone number, handle, or ID your friends will need to learn.
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| MrHappy316Wish I had my tankPremium
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