03-05-2010, 01:29 AM
Grumpyguy wrote:
Only thing I'd like to reduce is texting, but the $5 plan only gives you 200 texts which isn't enough
All the major carriers rip people off with the price of texting. The only close to reasonable deal is if you have several people on a family plan. We pay $20/mo for unlimited texting on 4 phones with AT&T. I rarely use it, but the 3 iPhone users find it handy. I do like the Google text message service.
Some of the smaller PCS carriers include unlimited texting in their unlimited plans.
Sometimes I wonder if there is not collusion going on with the pricing of texting. It costs the carriers next to nothing to provide - even less than email for an ISP, as you can't keep messages on their server, and uses virtually no bandwidth.
- W