For some reason I was under the assumption that all inbound text-messages on Cingular were free, it was only outbound that cost...hmm. As a heavy Twitter user I was 'surprised' to see a nice 'addition' to my cellphone bill this past month :-)
For future reference, almost 800 messages costs a little over $80.00.
Visitor Comments
You are such an ass hat Josh. I dont even know what else to say.
Posted by: Sean O'Shaughnessy | March 5, 2007 4:03 PM
Well that's why we all learn from our mistakes......no more Twitter via SMS for me, Mr. Ass Hat.
Posted by: Josh Hallett | March 5, 2007 4:06 PM
Ouch. I'm a Cingular customer and use a heavy amount of data. So I have a data plan that includes around 1000 text messages. I believe that you can buy a large block of text messages for $5 per month.
Posted by: Rob Safuto | March 6, 2007 10:22 AM
May I mention that costs for receiving SMS or calls are unheard of over here? ;)
Posted by: Nicole Simon | March 6, 2007 1:44 PM
Josh --
You apparently do not have a teenager. There is not a single parent of a teenager out there who has not learned this the hard way. And we are not talking JUST 800 either, unless we are limiting it to one slow week.
Posted by: China Law Blog | March 7, 2007 1:32 PM
Wow. In Australia inbound SMS is free. Most of Europe I think is the same. The sender pays the freight. You can buy blogs of SMS at very cheap rates especially if you want more than 100,000 per month. I've heard number sub $0.01 AUD.
But for cellular calls I actually like the US model. The phone number is not identifiable as a cell phone, so the caller pays the normal local/long distance call and the recipient pays the freight for the benefit of being mobile. For once I think the Americans have it right.
Most of the rest of the world you can tell you're dialing a cell phone from the area code, and it costs you more to call them. You also pay more to make calls from a cell phone (but that's expected).
Posted by: PaulZ | March 14, 2007 9:36 PM