Comments on: AT&T’s text messages cost $1,310 per megabyte

By: Corey Harmon

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:17:20 +0000

I can’t believe this thread is still getting comments over a year later.

By: just_ducky

just_ducky — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:55:57 +0000

what really is screwed up is that not only do they charge you .20 for outgoing text…they charge you .20 for every INCOMING text…..THAT IS JUST WRONG !!!!!!! screw AT &T

By: angela

angela — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:10:22 +0000

Atandt should just die. It is just ridiculos how much they are charging for every freaking gig this and text of that…. good thing we are free to choose except if you are tangle in a freaking contract whre you must pay 200.00 to get out of their trap. but once i am gone I am gone for good.

Go virgin mobile!!!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:19:36 +0000

Haha, he used the Bill Cosby method of reading I’m sure (reading the first sentence of every page)

By: Jason W

Jason W — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:37:14 +0000

I doubt they pad the bills. I did write a comment but I’ll repeat what I said. I have the 200 message plan and I always verify the accuracy of my bill every week. I go online or via the iPhone APP to see the activity. If anyone out there has a smart phone just use AIM or YAHOO to send/receive free texts!!! I can’t believe people do not know about this!!!

By: Jason W

Jason W — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:34:27 +0000

I have an iPhone with the 200 text plan. I agree 100% that the extra charge for texting is pure profit. If we pay $30 for an unlimited data plan the texting should fall under this category. In a sense it does because I use third party apps to send text messages. Only reason I have the 200 plan is in the event someone texts me and forgets my alternate text address. I do get back at ATT though. I tether and I really get my money’s worth! Screw them!!!

Anyone remember when ATT used to charge for touch tone? YES… they did. They phased it out when they realized that rotary phones were taking more computer access time to process!!

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:10:47 +0000

I agree, the whole thing seems like a scam to me. On another issue, we have been checking our phone memory against the online records kept by AT&T and have noticed they double the number of texts sent and received. If we send a text at 5:30 it shows up on our records twice, at the correct time as shown on the phone, and again an hour later. We have unlimited texting now, but didn’t in November when our daughter was billed for 975 texts. She adamantly claimed she did not text that much and we believed her. We contested the bill, were unsuccessful, and currently are riding out our 2 year contract. But now we have proof that AT&T pads its bills and would like to fight it again. Anyone have this problem?
Thanks

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:02:40 +0000

As ludicrous as there pricing is it is completely legal.

The correct way to deal with this is to stop paying for something that is overpriced. Athletes are not to blame for outrageous player salaries, people who pay for the overpriced tickets are. Likewise, the people who pay $.20 a text message are responsible for letting the phone companies get away with their insane pricing. Stop doing business with companies who over price their products and see how fast they lower their prices.

By: Guy

Guy — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:44:19 +0000

http://mymessages.wireless.att.com/

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:03:11 +0000

I agree that the cellphone providers are making an exorbitant amount of money on SMS considering how little it costs them to transmit a message. Unfortunately the only way to bring down the prices is to reduce demand, and demand is high. The problem is that the vast majority of people are uninformed about what an SMS message actually costs from a technical standpoint. Kudos to the author for raising awareness, even if the analysis isn’t precise. Though a statement like “text messages cost over $1000 per MB” certainly raises eyebrows.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:52:39 +0000

Hahahahaha Pitchforks and torches it is!!! Same goes for verizon!

By: Mr. Obvious

Mr. Obvious — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:42:32 +0000

Fail. The article is about actual costs on AT&T’s end. NOT cost per text message.

By: robert

robert — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:47:25 +0000

yeah, incredible fucking fail

By: John

John — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:39:55 +0000

Simple solution. I called AT&T and opted out of sending/receiving text messages. No charges for this outrageously priced feature. Guess I’m old fashioned, but my cell phone only makes or receives phone calls.

By: brenna

brenna — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:15:01 +0000

i have att and unlimited is better to have. but i can only send messages when i talk but not view them :[

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:01:23 +0000

They also charge $.01 per kilobyte if you use THEIR store to buy THEIR stuff. I told them to disable data on my girlfriend’s phone because it costs so much just for the pleasure of shopping on their site. They tried to dismiss it stating “You pay your ISP for access to the internet when you’re shopping don’t you?”. However, my girlfriends limited surfing on their site in order to check out a few of their games ended up charging us $55 to download 5MB! Later, somehow they lost the configuration change and the same thing happened again. I had to argue with them for over an hour to get them to remove the charges. I had to demand escalation and tell them flat out that I WILL NOT PAY. Crooks! Verizon never charged me for browsing their online store, or if they did, the charge was so low I didn’t notice. If my ISP was AT&T, at these prices I would probably be paying $50,000 – $100,000 a month!

By: alex

alex — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:08:23 +0000

does it cost money to text a differenet country with at&t?

By: ben

ben — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:06:20 +0000

fail

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:07:46 +0000

There is a group for this. Join on Facebook. Together we’ll kick their butts :P

By: MICHEAL

MICHEAL — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:13:39 +0000

If you have a family plan you should get the family unlimited plan. One of my 3 sonsgoes over 3600 txts a month and he is 12 years old and uses under 50 minutes a month.