AT&T wrote in this morning to correct charges that it was quadrupling prices that customers pay when they go over their text message allotments. In fact, those prices are not increasing at all. They will remain as follows:
- Messaging 200 Plan (200 messages with anyone on any network in the US): customers are charged $0.10 for each additional message- Messaging 1500 Plan (1500 messages with anyone on any network in the US): customers are charged $0.05 for each additional message
As of March 31, the price of pay-per-message transmissions — for people who do not buy a texting package — will increase from 15 cents to 20 cents for text messages and from 25 cents to 30 cents for photo/video messages.
Those increases, though no where near the 4x reported earlier, still come in at 33 percent and 25 percent, respectively. AT&T notes that the new prices will be in line with industry standards, which is both true and sad.
Texting is already one of the most overpriced services imaginable and it says very bad things about the state of cellular competition to see prices going up, rather than down toward free.
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