Texting: The New Email
Over the last few months my text messaging overages on my cell phone bill have risen ever so slightly.
But there is no denying it. It is rising.
I used to hardly ever text because I have email. Plus I was limited to 100 text messages per month. That was a limit that I was grandfathered into, as Verizon no longer offer that package. (New minimum is 250 text messages per month.)
Anyway I finally raised my limit yesterday to 250. It will cost me an extra $2 per month but the overages were consistently higher than that every month.
I was stubborn. I didn’t want to lose my low cost text plan in favor of a higher one if text nessaging was just a fad.
Truth is, texting is far from a fad. I know people that text hundreds, even thousands of text messages per month. I receive ten times the amount of text messages I used to. A lot of my friends don’t use email regularly, but they do text very regularly.
Now the only question is should I bite the bullet and raise it to 500 text messages a month and unlimited “IN” texting? It’s only another 5 bucks a month and now that I’ve raised my limit I see the amount of texting I do multiplying fast…
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July 16th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
I am on T-Mobile, and I finally gave up and bought unlimited text messaging for $9.95/month. My two teenagers can send 150 text messages A DAY between them.
Me – I still only do about 5-10 a month. BUt I once got a bill for $147 in overages (when I was on Verizon). That’s when I switched to unlimited. And to a different carrier!