Business Cell Phones — 05 March 2007
Cingular Adds Unlimited “IN Text Messaging”

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Recently Cingular and Verizon increased it’s per text message cost from $0.10 to $0.15. They’ve obviously ran the numbers and seen the profits. In fact, I’ve known teenagers whose Family Plan’s cost ballooned due to finger mashing, not chit-chatting. To remain competitive in the cell phone marketplace and to lock in some guaranteed monthly revenue, Cingular will soon start to offer unlimited ‘in network’ text messaging for $5/month. You’ll have to subscribe to a text or media package to be eligible – means the lowest amount you could pay for this feature is $10 ($5 text bundle at Cingular gets you 200 texts a month). The ‘IN text’ option includes photos, texts, video messages, but not instant messages.

Verizon Wireless And Cingular Hope You Get The Message With New Rates [Information Week]

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  • MITCH3L

    I REALLY HOPE CINGULAR GETS UNLIMITED TEXT MESSENGING NOT JUST M2M BUT FOR ANY COMPANY BECAUSE MOST OF MY FRIENDS HAVE UNLIMITED BUIT OF COURES THEY HAVE
    T-MOBIL AND I DONT WANT T-MOBLE THEIR SIGNAL IS NOT AS GOOD AS CINGULAR!!
    SO PLEASE CINGULAR GET UNLIMITED photos, texts, AND video messaging!!!!

  • Ren

    All my friends have different cell phone companies. Five dollars for unlimited text to only people with cingular isn’t a deal at all. My friend has unlimited text for ten dollars to anyone she wants! Cingular needs to get with the program and start listening to its customers.

  • http://tyler1233213213213131 tyler

    i agree and i want cingular to get umlimted texting

  • BL8304

    My contract is up with cingular in June of this year and I would consider staying with them if they had unlimited text messages. I have to agree with REN’s comments, offering unlimited text to only customers that have cingular will not work for my son. All his friends are on different networks. It looks like I will be switching cell phone companies again.

  • Sean

    I agree with all of these people. When i first heard about the deal i was going to get it, but now that i know that its only mobile to mobile it has completly changed my mind and it looks like i wont be getting texting after all.

  • Jennifer

    Cingular needs to get with the program. I had to turn off the texting feature on my kids phones because it was getting way to costly. They keep begging for me to get unlimited texting “like all their friends have.” Well all their friends don’t have Cingular and can get unlimited for $10!!!! What is wrong with you Cingular. Isn’t more cost effective to keep your loyal customers happy so that they will continue to stay with you and speak highly of you and continue to recommend you to their friends. You can’t tell me for $10 you can’t give us unlimited texting considering I already spend $123 a month with you. For $10 more I’d gladly pay to keep from hearing my kids complain constantly about not being able to text, however, I can continue to tune them out if I have to pay $20 a month or .15 per text message. Wise up Cingular!!! I have faith you will hear your customers!!

  • Jessica

    oh my gosh. cingular, you need to get unlimited text messaging to any network. this is so unfair. I have cingular and none if my other friends do. I just convinced my mom to let me have unlimited text messaging but now that i see its only to cingular people, i changed my mind because its not a good deal at all. so please cingular, get with the program and get unlimted text to any network. =]

  • Eemi

    Every1 cingular has unlimited texts for 19.99 a month

  • Jessica

    really? is it to every network?

  • Chris

    To the guy who would pay $10 but not $20 for his kids, why don’t you just suck it up and get them to do an extra $10 of work around the house a month? Seems like a win win for everyone. They’ll stop complaining and they’ll learn a good life lesson about the value of your work and having to work a little to get something you want.

  • Colby

    Yeah cingular has unlimited texting to any network for 20 dollars now. I went today with my bro to check it out, and im going tomorrow to actuallly get it. Its about time cingular quit sucking

  • Denise

    Cingular still isn’t as good as the other netwoks though! They do not have a family plan with unlimited texting!! I wish I would have signed on with Verizon. I have 2 years to wait it out now! Verizon cost $30 for unlimited texting with a family plan of 700 minutes up to 5 lines. To have that exact same family plan with Cingular for all 4 of us to have the unlimited texting it would cost $80!!!!!!! $50 more than if I had Verizon. Other networks I have seen have it even cheaper yet! COME ONE CINGULAR!!!!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!!!!

  • steve

    holy crap cingular y cant ur unlimited texting to any network be cheap $20.00 is such a rip off.

  • lamar

    Do any1 no where to get unlimited text

  • Marcus

    Yup i agree with everyone. Cingular sucks cuz they don’t have unlimited text plus they have terrible customer service!
    I’m switching to Verizon as soon as my contract is up.
    I know they’ll treat me right!

  • zakar

    how do i get unlimited texts if u know please tell me

  • kelsey

    yeah i definitely agree! they need unlimited txt for everyone. but i know for a fact that verizon just recently got unlimited text for any company… so unless cingular comes out with unlimited for any company pretty soon…. im switching. it is rediculous. they are suckin the money out of our pockets… but they are NOT giving service worth any money. our bill has been raised about 200 dollars per month and thats just sickening. verizon here we come!

  • Joshua Deluna-Garza

    Cingular does have unlimted texting for 19.99 and unlimted internet and texting for 39.99

  • Denise

    They have unlimited yes, but it is $20 for ONE line! That is ridiculous when other networks offer unlimited for the whole family for $30!!!!

  • http://www.myspace.com/sonnypeepee sonny from ehs

    i agree with ren haha cingular is gayyy

  • lance

    agreed. i was in europe for five months (naturally cingular wouldn’t suspend my contract for a few months).

    Everyone over in europe has FREE INCOMING calls and texts. We are getting screwed.

    Cingular sucks because they force you to pay the $20 extra for multimedia. Most people just want texts, not to send unlimited pictures etc. I’m moving to Verizon when my time is up, unless Cingular wisens up and offers an unlimited text service for $10 or under.

  • Marcy

    I believe that it is ridiculous that all Cingular is worried about is making a profit and not satisfying their customers. I honestly think that if they do decide to make unlimited text messages available for $5 a month to all networks not only will more people want to get that particular plan, but it will also attract more customers to the network! I would love to see this plan be set into motion and if it does I can guarantee that Cingular would get more customers, they might even get customers back who were cheated by Cingular in the past.

  • Christina Wilkan

    Cingular really needs to get unlimited text messaging to everyone. Most cell phone companies charge about $10 for unlimited text to anyone..and cingular is way to expensive for texting. Their new commercial advertises that it is $5 more a month, which is very misleading because it’s actually about 4 times that amount a month, $20!

  • bloo square

    FYI cingular has an unlimited internet plan for $20 a month called mediamax unlimited .. this gives you unlimited web/internet .. What you can do, and it works almost as good as txting your friends directly .. is tunnel your text messages via the internet.

    That is, use your mail program (on my phone its mobile outlook) and just type your message in the subject part to the appropriate email address i.e.:

    http://www.accutracking.com/sms-email.html

    The surprising advantage of this is, you now have a record of your text messages (sent and received) in your email account .. which is sometimes useful,

    and the whole thing *including* 3G is purely $20 a month… In fact its only a matter of time before someone makes a ‘txt messaging’ app that tunnels unlimited txt messages over the net for free.

    btw i have the 8525 .. so its a higher end phone.. but in the end its not as expensive as it seems when you save so much on the monthlies .. (which is the real cost of the service)

  • cingularsucks

    cingular is so gay why can’t you just get unlimited texting for $10 a month atleast i mean your gonna make even more than if u kept it at $20 because other people will come to you!!!!

  • shelby

    unlimited texting would be amazing…i know this is a bit off topic but i have a certain limit of text to anyone per month, and i don’t know how to check the amount of messages i have…so the last couple months i’ve been going over…does anyone know if there is some way to check my total amount of msgs(sent and recieved), cause it’d probably help me not go over

  • Greys-Girl

    Okay i watch american idol and they advertise that cingular does unlimeted text for $5 which is totally in my budget. I was so phyched. I go to add that to my cell plan and learn its $5 for people with cingular and all my friends got different plans. I mean $20 bucks a month woah.

  • Hottie101

    omg i agree with greys girl like i watched american and idol and they were like ya its $5 and now i might have to like work to get the extra like $15

  • Jennifer19

    Hey, I agree with this sucky plan of 20 bucks a month for unlimited texting. I got the unlimited messaging for 19.99 a month. Which said that you can send and recieve, texts, PICTURES, AND VIDEOS….but yet I am unable to open the pictures my friends send me and am unable to send pictures or videos…says communication failure. Then I am told by a Cingular rep that I have to have Media Net in order to download my pictures,and videos. Is that true? I’m just confused now because the detail of the feature I got said I can send and recieve pictures and video….said nothing about having to get Media Net…Someone help…I have a Sony Ericsson W300i.

  • That guy

    I just checked the cingular site and they now have an unlimited texting service for FAMILIES! Then I looked at the price…ouch. It’s 30 BUCKS A MONTH!!!!!!!! That is absolutely outrageous. I hate Cingular so much they NEED unlimited texting. It sucks because I want to stay with them to get the iPhone but without unlimited texting for cheaper I’m switching to Verizon. All of my friends have Verizon and I only get 200 texts a month it’s so unfair because they can text each other FOR FREE and I have to pay for it. At least with Verizon unlimited IN messaging would be good enough. COME ON CINGULAR GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!!

  • alicia hand

    oh my goodness i have to tell people all the time to stop texting me cause they all ahve unlimited textng and they can text all day ling and not have to worry about it but me i ahve to keeep track of all my messages to make sure that i dont runover on messages and so that can keep my bill down well guess what it is still not down and i really need hepl with that and with what cingular has to offer yall should really look into unlimited texing for all companies

  • nily

    my rents won’t let me have a plan unless its about 30.00 a month & its got unlimited text & it dont have alot of talk time cause i dont talk alot on my phone jus text & it has 2 b cigular so cingular u need 2 make a plan like dis u would have alot of peps buy it 2!

  • Katie

    Is cingular the same as Verison? b/c I dont want to get a deal like this if it is!!

  • cel

    I paid a lot, cingular cheated me.. I always paying so much.. theres no unlimited text messaging

  • zena

    yeah i agree $20 a month is too much.
    does anyone know any companies that offer unlimited texting for $10 or under?

  • Mike

    I agree with everyone! cingular suks, end of story! They need to got a texting plan like verizon because i do not feel like spending $20 a month for unlimited! It is jsut stupid, 200 txt messages goes by way to fast. Cingular neeeds to get witht eh program!

  • http://myspace.com/thecrackerakabrandon Brandon

    yea, cingular is gay….they charge the most for everything and they are at&t now and that company has alot of things going on to get there money but they still wanna rip ppl off still and over charge us. At&T rips me off with my DSL too. So i dont know if im the dumbass here and goin with them still….

  • kayla

    i heard that anyone that has a family plan in cingular they have unlimitted texting.. is that true. well i hope it it cuz its so expensive and we dont even have unlimitted texting!!!!

  • kayla

    cingular sucks! it will be better if we get unlimitted texting for free!!! i mean with the family plan. you guys PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =]

  • http://www.Tsuki-to-Hoshi.tk/ Aoi

    Hey, just thought I’d point out to you that if you buy the 20 dollar unlim. text plan from Cingular and then CALL them, you can tell them that you want the unlim. texting for your family plan and they’ll make it be for your family and it’ll still only be 20 dollars each month! (I just confirmed this with a family member who uses it)
    Besides…there’s no chance in hell I’m switching to Verizon….Or T-mobile for that matter….>_> I like the unlim. calls for Cingular-to-Cingular…The family members I mostly see have Cingular, and even members of my biological family have Cingular, so I like being able to talk to anyone from either of my families as much as I’d like. ^_^

  • Kelly

    Does cingular have unlimited or not????????????
    If someone knows that question email at cototwin@aol.com
    thanks

  • Devon

    Ok, seriously my parents get so pissed wen if i even go over forty a month and they are so “texting is a dumb money sucker” and they have “brain washed” us, but i still do it, and like cingular, you should look at this whole page and you would totally see that even though there is like 30 of us, really like everyone i know that has ur service is way pissed that you don’t have unlimited. like think of the business you would get since you have the best service anywhere, and if you had cheaper texting and unltmd texting like everyone would sign on with you! DO IT FOR UR FUTURE CHILDREN!!!!!

  • Dereck Symon

    Cingular is the worst company when it comes to text messaging. If they would just listen to their customers and have unlimited text messaging for the whole family for less than 10 dollars monthly, than their business would grow. Our family is switching companies as soon as our contract is over, unless Cingular can “get with the program.”

  • jay

    how does the unlimited text messeging work on a cingular phone
    ? Becuase im under the impression that all teh texting that im doing isnt gonna cost me.

  • melek

    I REALLY HOPE CINGULAR GETS UNLIMITED TEXT MESSENGING NOT JUST M2M BUT FOR ANY COMPANY BECAUSE MOST OF MY FRIENDS HAVE UNLIMITED BUIT OF COURES THEY HAVE
    T-MOBIL AND I DONT WANT T-MOBLE THEIR SIGNAL IS NOT AS GOOD AS CINGULAR!!
    SO PLEASE CINGULAR GET UNLIMITED photos, texts, AND video messaging!!!!

  • clay

    cingular you suck, you need unlimited text for 10.00-15.00

  • mom1

    Kids are turing into text messaging addicts! Why can’t they just dial the number and speak to their friends like normal people do? Phones are communication devices, not toys. All of the texting is disruptive, time consuming, and unnecessary. If kids spent as much time READING as they do texting, our education system would be much improved. It’s amazing how parents will spend the $5 – $20 per month for text messaging, but will not do their job as a parent to be a part of their child’s education! I have disabled my son’s texting capabilities after just one month’s enormous bill and realizing the amount of time that must have been expended in him doing so.

  • gambia

    So, mom1…. Your child does not read his text messages that he receives? It doesn’t take much to run up that bill, especially when it costs to receive them as well. It’s not just kids getting addicted to texting as well. I can tell you that the education system has never improved since it started. Texting has not been out that long, nor computers or cars or video games… So what is it?

  • http://Becca Becca

    Mom1
    some people like texting.
    In some ways it is just like writing a story
    I love to read and I love to text
    and I know I am good at both subjects.
    i agree with u in some cases
    some people do overtext
    but if the child pays for the phone and the monthly costs would you think it mattered so much
    I beleive your more angry with the bill than the money