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20 cent text messages both ways is competitive?
by nerfhammer 16y ago
20 cent text messages both ways is competitive?
- tptacek 16y agoSo, buy a Sprint phone with unlimited texting? (Wait a minute; I don't appear to be paying $0.20 for text messages either, and I'm AT&T.)
- nerfhammer 16y agoIt costs an additional $19.95 a month for unlimited texting on the (at&t) iphone plan last I checked.
- whakojacko 16y agoSprint plans with unlimited texting are still much more expensive than similar in Europe. Their 450 Minute "Everything" plan is $50/mo with a 2 year contract. That might be good for the US, but its not good relavitely speaking. Just as an example, I looked through vodafone UK's 24 month plans and I found 600 minutes and unlimited texting for the equivalent of $32 per month.
- dmm 16y agoVirgin Mobile USA (owned by Sprint) has similar plans. Unlimited texts + 300mins/month for $25 prepaid. 1200mins for $40.
- SandB0x 16y agoWow, on a sim-only quit-any-time plan in the UK, I pay £10 per month for unlimited texts, unlimited internet (though tethering is apparently against the TOS) and 250 minutes (I never use these up). And I've never had to pay to receive a text on any network.
- Derbasti 16y agoYou realize that 40 ct per 160 bytes makes those bytes more expensive than sending the same data to the hubble space telescope?
- s3graham 16y agoIt's actually only 140 octets. :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Message_size http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Message_size