Unlimited Texing.... EVER?

Greetings!

I've been lurking for a while and have a question about Cingular's text
message plans. I've got several friends who have Cingular and have
unlimited text messaging (they claim it's $7.99/mo). Cingular tells me
it's not available. I'm thinking the reason MAY be because I'm on a
family plan and my friends are on individual plans, but Cingular won't
tell me. (you know, the usual run-around).

Anyone have a definitive answer? Do I need to get 3 individual plans
instead of a family plan? Do I have to beg in a certain pitch? Do I
have to talk to the correct person while standing on one leg?

Many thanks!

Chris

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:17:56 -0500, Chris <c5flteng@SPAMLESShotmail.com>
wrote in <MPG.1fb87371252313c29896f6@news.giganews.com>:

>I've been lurking for a while and have a question about Cingular's text
>message plans. I've got several friends who have Cingular and have
>unlimited text messaging (they claim it's $7.99/mo). Cingular tells me
>it's not available. I'm thinking the reason MAY be because I'm on a
>family plan and my friends are on individual plans, but Cingular won't
>tell me. (you know, the usual run-around).
>
>Anyone have a definitive answer? Do I need to get 3 individual plans
>instead of a family plan? Do I have to beg in a certain pitch? Do I
>have to talk to the correct person while standing on one leg?

AFAIK there is no such option or package. The closest you can get is
MEdia Max 3000 ($40/month), which is an average of 100 messages/day
(plus Unlimited MEdia Net). MEdia Works would give you 1000 messages
(average of 33/day) for $15/month (plus 5 MB data).

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John Navas said...


> AFAIK there is no such option or package.

Thanks a lot, John! I'm gonna ask to see a copy of their bill...



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Chris <c5flteng@spamlesshotmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I've been lurking for a while and have a question about Cingular's text
> message plans. I've got several friends who have Cingular and have
> unlimited text messaging (they claim it's $7.99/mo). Cingular tells me
> it's not available. I'm thinking the reason MAY be because I'm on a
> family plan and my friends are on individual plans, but Cingular won't
> tell me. (you know, the usual run-around).
>
> Anyone have a definitive answer? Do I need to get 3 individual plans
> instead of a family plan? Do I have to beg in a certain pitch? Do I
> have to talk to the correct person while standing on one leg?
>

I haven't seen such a package and I was pricing plans closely a few months
back. Perhaps Cingular offers a deal for unlimitted in-network texting?
Verizon offers such a package; $10 for 500 text messages and unlimitted IN
text messages. I believe T-Mobile also has an unlimitted text messaging plan.

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