T-Mobile only top-4 carrier 'not' to raise SMS rates
Posted Jan 28th 2007 10:44AM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Applications, Business
With Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel and now Verizon Wireless raising the text messaging rate for customers (without a monthly texting plan) to 15 cents per message sent or received, are smaller carriers following that trend?
T-Mobile USA -- the fourth-largest carrier here in the U.S. -- is staying put (for now) with 10 cents per message sent or received (on a "pay per use" basis).
But, will T-Mobile and even Alltel raise their SMS rates to 15 cents soon? Hey, everyone else is doing it.
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1. I've had T-Mobile for a year now. I've always been charged 15¢ per message to send or receive.
I had switched from an AT&T wireless account, where I had unlimited message receptions but I had to pay 10¢ to send each message.
The thing I don't like is that I'm not in control of when someone sends me a message, and they can run up my bill. I've got 1500 minutes of talk time, so I'd much rather they call me or send me a voice mail than send me a text message.
Posted at 4:32PM on Jan 28th 2007 by William C Bonner