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Text prices up again?
Did anyone notice T-Mobile prepaid has very slickly changed the text messaging prices from .10 cents to send and .05 to receive to .20 cents for both ways including picture messaging? This must be something totally new! Here is the link. Look near the bottom past the Sidekick plan. http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/...cell-phone-plan
Note that Web2Go is also offered, it doesn't say anything about web browsing being included. It also doesn't say its not included, which could be a good thing.
Of course this happens 3 days after I switch to T-Mobile! I did check the account section of mytmobile for text rates and it came up with this:
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As a T-Mobile Prepaid customer, you are able to send and receive text messages to and from your phone. Text and instant messages are $0.10 each to send and $0.05 to receive in the US and Canada; $0.35 to send and $0.05 to receive everywhere else.
Which means two possibilities: existing customers get to continue on at the old rates, OR they haven't gotten around to updating the section I was just viewing. I'm guessing the udpate faery hasn't visited that part of the site yet.
20 cents to send/receive is pretty steep by prepaid standards. If they're going to charge such ridiculous prices, they should at least offer messaging bundles for prepaid customers like virgin mobile and others do.
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Just tested it on two of my T-Mo phones - 10 cents to send, 5 cents to receive on both phones! 11/17/2008 at 11:40 p.m.
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I doubt there will be any grandfathering of text prices for old customers. There is no business justification for them to maintain two set of prices for SMS to lowly prepaid customers. I think they just haven't put in effect those prices yet, but they will soon. TMo2Go is following at&t GoPhone steps in many ways and since they saw that at&t could get away with their ppu sms price gouging, why not? You know, with the current economy, bytes have become a luxurious commodity and transmitting 160 of them is now a real burden on their network, so stop complaning and start paying and be thankful that MMS will cost as much as SMS...for now. </sarcasm not directed to Sweeper but to TMo>
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but at the same time alot of people consider tmobile's network inferior to at&t's. That is why tmobile always gives you more minutes for the money. I would think that would be the same way with text messaging as well (charging less for them than at&t)
$0.20 to send and receive is steep. lot of folks use tmobile prepaid just for their reasonable txt rates. Now that they have doubled the sending rates, and made the receiving rates 4 times more makes it less desirable.
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I only posted what I read and I just thought that it might be a possibility since other prepay services (like VM) grandfathered their current customers when they increased texting rates.
T-Mobile might have the inferior network, but at least with T-Mobile, I can roam on Unicel (Verizon GSM, except VT which will become AT&T) in New England and Rogers in Canada without any roaming charges. AT&T prepay does not allow roaming.
20 cents to send/receive is pretty steep by prepaid standards. If they're going to charge such ridiculous prices, they should at least offer messaging bundles for prepaid customers like virgin mobile and others do.
I guess AT&T set the bar with their damn 20 cent text messaging. I expected more from T-Mo, though.
T-Mobile might have the inferior network, but at least with T-Mobile, I can roam on Unicel (Verizon GSM, except VT which will become AT&T) in New England and Rogers in Canada without any roaming charges. AT&T prepay does not allow roaming.
More accurately, AT&T prepaid does allow for roaming but only in Mexico. T-Mobile prepaid allows roaming in both Mexico and Canada.
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$0.20 to send and receive is steep. lot of folks use tmobile prepaid just for their reasonable txt rates. Now that they have doubled the sending rates, and made the receiving rates 4 times more makes it less desirable.
Exactly. I'm in New York City and you always see many immigrants carry an extra T-Mobile handset just for international SMS texting because it was only 10 cents. Now that it's going up to 20 cents both ways it's gonna hurt. Especially for the Fillipino community who are known to use SMS heavily to stay in touch with their loved ones back home.
I doubt there will be any grandfathering of text prices for old customers. There is no business justification for them to maintain two set of prices for SMS to lowly prepaid customers.
Correct. Remember years back when text messaging was 10 cents to send and free to receive. None of us old customers got to keep that rate. I hope they don't start charging us 20 cent per minute for us customers that buy the $50/$100 refills.
11-17-2008, 22:26
I did check the account section of mytmobile for text rates and it came up with this:
</sarcasm not directed to Sweeper but to TMo>
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