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Sneaky price increase?
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| music53OUTOUT@earthlink.net 2007-04-07, 10:33 am |
| So, when did the price of sending and receiving text
messages go up to 15 cents?? I don't recall any notice
about that.
Remember the days when incoming text messages were all free?
Then 2 cents? Then 10 cents? Now 15 cents. Tomorrow, 25
cents??
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| paulcman 2007-04-07, 10:33 am |
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music53OUTOUT@earthl
ink.net Wrote:
> So, when did the price of sending and receiving text
> messages go up to 15 cents?? I don't recall any notice
> about that.
>
> Remember the days when incoming text messages were all free?
> Then 2 cents? Then 10 cents? Now 15 cents. Tomorrow, 25
> cents??
March 1st was the start of the 0.15 text message for Verizon. There
were notifications sent out in your bills for 2 months prior to the
actual price increase. It was posted on VerizonWireless.com and My
Account during that time period. Also, there was a lot of talk about
it on the various forums and newsboards like this. If you missed it,
you must have been living under a rock.
Verizon was actually one of the last to join the text increase train.
It will only affect you if you do not currently subscribe to a
messaging bundle. In fact, the messaging bundles got better when the
increase went into affect. The $15.00 bundle went from 1000 messages
to 1500 and the $20.00 bundle went from 2500 to 5000 messages for other
networks.
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| Michael Wise 2007-04-07, 12:33 pm |
| In article <paulcman.2ooes2@nospam.cellphoneforums.net>,
paulcman <paulcman.2ooes2@nospam.cellphoneforums.net> wrote:
> music53OUTOUT@earthl
ink.net Wrote:
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> March 1st was the start of the 0.15 text message for Verizon. There
> were notifications sent out in your bills for 2 months prior to the
> actual price increase. It was posted on VerizonWireless.com and My
> Account during that time period. Also, there was a lot of talk about
> it on the various forums and newsboards like this. If you missed it,
> you must have been living under a rock.
>
> Verizon was actually one of the last to join the text increase train.
> It will only affect you if you do not currently subscribe to a
> messaging bundle. In fact, the messaging bundles got better when the
> increase went into affect. The $15.00 bundle went from 1000 messages
> to 1500 and the $20.00 bundle went from 2500 to 5000 messages for other
> networks.
But not as good as the $5/unlimited plan they used to offer.
--Mike
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| music53OUTOUT@earthl
ink.net wrote:
> So, when did the price of sending and receiving text
> messages go up to 15 cents?? I don't recall any notice
> about that.
>
> Remember the days when incoming text messages were all free?
> Then 2 cents? Then 10 cents? Now 15 cents. Tomorrow, 25
> cents??
Mine are now 0¢ as I had them turn off all text messaging on my account
after the last price increase. Obviously they are trying to push people
to sign up for a monthly messaging plan.
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| Cubit 2007-04-07, 10:33 pm |
| -but doesn't turning off text messaging disable the voicemail message
notification?
"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:461806ad$0$2721
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> music53OUTOUT@earthl
ink.net wrote:
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> Mine are now 0¢ as I had them turn off all text messaging on my account
> after the last price increase. Obviously they are trying to push people to
> sign up for a monthly messaging plan.
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| Rick Blaine 2007-04-07, 10:33 pm |
| SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
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>Mine are now 0¢ as I had them turn off all text messaging on my account
>after the last price increase. Obviously they are trying to push people
>to sign up for a monthly messaging plan.
Yep. Name of the game is to get that average monthly revenue figure up any way
they can.
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| Notan 2007-04-07, 10:33 pm |
| Rick Blaine wrote:
> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
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> Yep. Name of the game is to get that average monthly revenue figure up any way
> they can.
It's commonly referred to as "business."
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Notan
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| Cubit wrote:
> -but doesn't turning off text messaging disable the voicemail message
> notification?
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Nope .. too much spam so turned it off .. still get voicemail notice.
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Jim
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| On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:01:29 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote:
> music53OUTOUT@earthl
ink.net wrote:
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>Mine are now 0¢ as I had them turn off all text messaging on my account
>after the last price increase. Obviously they are trying to push people
>to sign up for a monthly messaging plan.
I just got my bill and found that they increased the per line
'Administration Fee' from $.40 to $.70. I must have missed that
announcement. Not surprising. I also missed it when they started
charging the $.40. OR there were no announcements - they just simply
started charging this made up fee.
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| Larry 2007-04-07, 10:33 pm |
| paulcman <paulcman.2ooes2@nospam.cellphoneforums.net> wrote in
news:paulcman.2ooes2@nospam.cellphoneforums.net:
> The $15.00 bundle went from 1000 messages
> to 1500 and the $20.00 bundle went from 2500 to 5000 messages for other
> networks.
>
Hmm...156 bytes/message x 1500 = 234KB for $15....or....$64,102.56 per
Gigabyte.
That's a real saving of $32,051.29/GB down from $96,153.85/GB at 1000
messages like it was before!
Now, if we buy it piecemeal per message...156 bytes for $0.15 =
$961,538.46/Gigabyte, so you're really getting a huge bargain if you buy
1500 messages at a time, saving $929,487.17/GB, enough to buy some really
nice waterfront property or a 100' motoryacht, complete with dock.
How much would your cable bill cost you if they charged you
$32,051.29/GB?
For the price of a Gigabyte from Verizon Wireless, you can buy a pretty
nice, brand new SUV!
Isn't that a real bargain?!
Larry
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| paulcman 2007-04-08, 4:33 am |
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Michael Wise Wrote:
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> But not as good as the $5/unlimited plan they used to offer.
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> --Mike
Are you kidding? The old $5.00 unlimited plan only included 50 messages
for other networks... not even close to what the current bundles offer.
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| Michael Wise 2007-04-08, 4:33 am |
| In article <paulcman.2opew1@nospam.cellphoneforums.net>,
paulcman <paulcman.2opew1@nospam.cellphoneforums.net> wrote:
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> Are you kidding? The old $5.00 unlimited plan only included 50 messages
> for other networks... not even close to what the current bundles offer.
I could care less about SMS'ing other networks...as long as I have
unlimited messaging within VZW. If I want to send more than 50 messages
to cell phones on another networks (something I've never done in 13
years of using SMS), I'll just use email.
--Mike
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