RSSVerizon Wireless Adds Unlimited Messaging
By the Betanews Staff | Published April 16, 2007, 10:49 AM
With "texting" becoming ever more popular, wireless carriers are beginning to offer unlimited messaging, some with the feature built into the voice plans themselves. Verizon Wireless is the latest to do so, saying Monday it would offer the feature in America's Choice Select and Family Share Select plans, which would allow customers to send unlimited text, photo, video, and instant messaging to any carrier within the US.
As opposed to the traditional America's Choice plan, the new options would be $20 more expensive per month. All other features, including minutes, would stay the same, said the company. Verizon Wireless customers are among the most prolific messagers in the industry, sending a record 17.7 billion text and 353 million picture and video messages during the fourth quarter of 2006.
I can only thank the Lord I had sense enough to insist on a 1-year plan with Stinkular. I am literally in that store every single week on my day off, fighting over the latest absurdity. This week it'll be the weird txts I'm getting from OZMA-something every single day. Oh how I wish I could afford the cancellation charge.
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|T-Mobile 15 bucks unlimited text beat that
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|I would rather kill texting than pay $20 more. Texting on a flip phone sucks horribly anyway. Like cutting grass with scissors. I nixed texting on my kids' phones and life has been better for all of us since.
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|Cingular, are you listening?
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|GCoder, I was just in a Cingular store the other day because I saw an ad on TV for unlimited texts for $5 bucks a month... what it didnt say in the ad was that it was only Cingular to Cingular. However the guy behind the counter told me that within the next couple months when the AT&T merger is completed the company will offer unlimited text messages to any carrier in the US.
So in short. It's coming. But Cingular still sucks as a service and I'm swithcing to Helio (sprint backbone) with more features and unlimited text messages and unlimited data usage.
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|Um, that would be "AT&T, are you listening?"
Which I hope they are.
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|They are not AT&T yet, but thanks for trying to add some input.
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|I have Helio as well :) Can't wait for the Ocean!!
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|yea he was talking out of his ass. the 5$ cingular 2 cingular txting is the only thing planned at the moment, i work for cingular wireless and there is no plans for unl txting its a cash cow for them at the moment so 20$ a month for unl to any carrier isnt going to pull any new customers in cingulars favor over another carrier offering the same thing.
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|Damn that looks sweet. My sprint contract is coming up in June so that might be ideal timing.
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|"former att wireless" customer here aka cingular aka gonna go back to att... BUTTTT.....
if i change my expired plan "unlimited incoming txt" goes bye bye...since cingular does not offer it!!
so i'm stuck with an oldd phone, cuz they said if i want a new phone i will have to lose my free incmoing txt....bump that!!
verizon...here i come...
btw, my "expired" plan consist of 760 anytime(peak), 1000 mobile to mobile, unlimited nights (starting at 9pm), unlimited weekends..free incoming txt (10c each outgoing)
39bucks a month! beat that!!
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