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This is such a joke. I can't tell what is sadder, the fact users have been messed with so much that its "something nice" that at&t is gouging more money from th
by bdotdub 17y ago
This is such a joke. I can't tell what is sadder, the fact users have been messed with so much that its "something nice" that at&t is gouging more money from them for MMS (its usually the same price of sms on every phone) or that at&t is so bad that its notable when they dont charge more for something that costs them fractions of a penny to send.
- teej 17y ago> its usually the same price of sms on every phone Source? The only data I could find was WAY old (2006) but had the global price of MMS pegged at 4x the price of SMS [1]. You can claim that some plans come with MMS/SMS allotments, therefore they are the same price. That still isn't the same cost, because providers will dock you for a message + the data. That means you need an unlimited data plan AND a text plan for them to essentially be the same price. It then follows that it makes perfect sense that AT&T would do this. All iPhone users MUST have an unlimited data plan, easily covering the data of sending MMS. [1] MMS pricing worldwide http://telephonyonline.com/wireless/metrics/mms_pricing_worldwide_013006/ http://telephonyonline.com/wireless/metrics/mms_pricing_worl...
- jonknee 17y agoSource? Every national US carrier. Go check. Sprint, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile all count SMS and MMS as "messaging" with no price differences. And no, they do not charge you for the data too. They have treated SMS/MMS as the same for quite some time. I forget who switched first (I want to say Alltel which is now part of Verizon), but it was a very short time between the first and the last.