OK, this might be mean of me to say, but here in Oz I called my monopoly 3.5G telco (Telstra) and asked them to disable my phone's data service. I left SMS and MMS active, because they're not accident prone. It took 5 minutes which included hold time and a friendly chat with the operator.
I tried doing this with Verizon. I was able to get data service disabled, but in order to do so I also had to block MMS messages, which are included with the text message plan. There was no other option. Not having to deal with random $2 charges is worth the lack of MMS for me (since I don't send them very often), but I still found it ridiculous that they couldn't be blocked separately.
AT&T Family unlimited texting plan ($30 covering five phones)... Let's just call it 26,000 messages per month. 3000 / 26000 = $0.115 per message.
Layne
You're a couple decimal places off... you mean.115 cents per message, or $0.00115
This is why I don't understand complaints about text message prices. If actually use text messaging a decent amount, then yes, it is ridiculous to pay per message.
If you want cheaper text messages, then buy a plan that includes them (Verizon has a 250 message option for $5 = $0.02/message).
If you want to send a single text message here or there, then you're going to pay a premium for using services that aren't part of your plan. I don't see how this could be considered unfair.
If the same pricing was applied on a per-byte basis to a single MP3 song download, it would set you back almost $24,000 according to one estimate.
Let's consider these same calculations on the $30 unlimited ATT plan. A single MP3 download would cost... $30. Let's just say if I'm planning on downloading MP3s using text messages I'm going to get an unlimited plan and save myself $23,970.
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OK, this might be mean of me to say, but here in Oz I called my monopoly 3.5G telco (Telstra) and asked them to disable my phone's data service. I left SMS and MMS active, because they're not accident prone. It took 5 minutes which included hold time and a friendly chat with the operator.
I tried doing this with Verizon. I was able to get data service disabled, but in order to do so I also had to block MMS messages, which are included with the text message plan. There was no other option. Not having to deal with random $2 charges is worth the lack of MMS for me (since I don't send them very often), but I still found it ridiculous that they couldn't be blocked separately.
AT&T Family unlimited texting plan ($30 covering five phones) ... Let's just call it 26,000 messages per month. 3000 / 26000 = $0.115 per message.
Layne
You're a couple decimal places off... you mean .115 cents per message, or $0.00115
This is why I don't understand complaints about text message prices. If actually use text messaging a decent amount, then yes, it is ridiculous to pay per message.
If you want cheaper text messages, then buy a plan that includes them (Verizon has a 250 message option for $5 = $0.02/message). If you want to send a single text message here or there, then you're going to pay a premium for using services that aren't part of your plan. I don't see how this could be considered unfair.
If the same pricing was applied on a per-byte basis to a single MP3 song download, it would set you back almost $24,000 according to one estimate.
Let's consider these same calculations on the $30 unlimited ATT plan. A single MP3 download would cost... $30. Let's just say if I'm planning on downloading MP3s using text messages I'm going to get an unlimited plan and save myself $23,970.
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